Through the lands of the Serb,

70 THROUGH THE LANDS OF THE SERB thought this was going rather far. The Montenegrin thought it one of the wildest statements he had ever met with, and shook his puzzled head, but his kindly eyes twinkled with fun. I think I see him now as he wished us goodnight-a resplendent figure in his green embroidered coat, his crimson and gold waistcoat, his dark blue knickerbockers, white gaiters and new sandals, bowing himself backwards through the little door with simple dignity, his tall lean form slightly bent by age-a splendid type of the Montenegrin of the old regime. I had a strange feeling of having known him years ago. As he passed from the room I recognised, with a sudden illuminating flash, Chaucer's " A knyghte there was and that a worthy man That from the time that he first began To riden out, he loved chivalrie, Truth and honoure, freedom and courtesiic. Full worthie was he in his lordes warre.... He was a very perfect gentle knyghte," etc. And had he not too "fought often for his faith" against "a hethen in Turkeye"? The truth of the medieval picture charmed me, and the knight armed with a white cotton umbrella went off in a shandrydan to pay his respects at the Palace on the beach. The weather never cleared, so we saw no more of Antivari that time. Blinding torrential rain and fierce blasts of wind crashed on the cottage walls. The fat frogs in the pond sat up, and their hoarse shouts, " brek-kek-kek-kek-koax-koax," resounded in every lull of the storm. We waited for the only diligence, and returned by it to Virbazar, and had as travelling companion our old friend of the inn, who,

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Title: Through the lands of the Serb,
Author: Durham, Mary E.
Canvas: Page 70
Publication: London,: E. Arnold,; 1904.
Subject terms: Montenegro -- Description and travel; Serbia -- Description and travel.

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