In this country, said Sir Marhaus, came never knight since it was christened, but he found strange adventures — ”

“This is not good form, Alisande. Sir Marhaus the king’s son of Ireland talks like all the rest; you ought to give him a brogue, or at least a characteristic expletive; by this means one would recognize him as soon as he spoke, without his ever being named. It is a common literary device with the great authors. You should make him say, ‘In this country, be jabers, came never knight since it was christened, but he found strange adventures, be jabers.’ You see how much better that sounds.”

— ”came never knight but he found strange adventures, be jabers. Of a truth it doth indeed, fair lord, albeit ’tis