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Demoiselle Alisande la Carteloise, whom Hank Morgan quickly begins to call “Sandy,” is a young woman who travels to Camelot with a tragic tale of being imprisoned (along with dozens of other fine ladies) in a castle guarded by ogres. Hank accompanies Sandy on a quest to free the remaining women. When they arrive to find a herd of pigs, Sandy insists the women have just been enchanted to look like pigs. In this way, Sandy represents the superstitious imagination and illogical belief systems of the uncivilized, medieval Britons. But, like Clarence, Sandy plays a key role as one of Hank’s sixth-century interpreters. She learns to translate his 19th-century slang and teaches him the meaning of medieval idioms. She also tells him the history of other knights he encounters and teaches him the conventions of knight errantry (for instance, once Hank has defeated the “ogres,” his responsibility to the ladies/pigs is over, and he doesn’t have to escort each one home individually). Sandy shows her devotion to Hank when she searches all over England for him after he disappears without warning from the Valley of Holiness (he is traveling incognito). Hank eventually realizes Sandy’s value and comes to see her as a wife and a friend. Sandy names their daughter Hello-Central because she mistakenly thinks that this is the name of one of Hank’s long-lost 19th-century beloveds, implying not only that she believes his outlandish tale of travel though time and space, but that she loves him enough to care about his life before he came to England. She and Hank are separated when he leaves her and Hello-Central (who is recuperating from a serious illness) in France and returns to find that England has plunged into civil war.
Sandy Quotes in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court quotes below are all either spoken by Sandy or refer to Sandy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16
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La Cote was much depressed, for he had scored here the worst failure of his campaign. He had not worked off a cake; yet he had tried all the tricks of the trade, even to the washing of a hermit; but the hermit died. This was indeed a bad failure, for this animal would now be dubbed a martyr, and would take his place among the saints of the Roman calendar. Thus made he his moan, this poor Sir La Cote Male Taile, and sorrowed passing sore. And so my heart bled for him, and I was moved to comfort and stay him. Wherefore I said—
“Forbear to grieve, fair knight, for this is not a defeat. We have brains you and I; and for such as have brains there are no defeats, but only victories.”
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Chapter 21
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Early in the afternoon we overtook another procession of pilgrims; but in this one there was no merriment, no jokes, no laughter, no playful ways, nor any happy giddiness, whether of youth or of age. Yet both were here […] Even the children were smileless; there was not a face among all these half a hundred people but was cast down and bore that set expression of hopelessness which is red of long and hard trials and old acquaintance with despair. They were slaves.
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Chapter 22
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“Yes, keep open. Isn’t that plain enough? Do [the hermits] knock off at noon?”
“Knock off?”
“Knock off—yes, knock off. What is the matter with knock off? I never saw such a dunderhead; can’t you understand anything at all? In plain terms, do they shut up shop, draw the game, bank the fires—”
“Shut up shop, draw—”
“There, never mind, let it go. You make me tired. You can’t seem to understand the simplest thing.”
“I would I might please thee, sir, and it is to me dole and sorrow that I should fail, albeit sith I am but a simple damsel and taught of none, being from the cradle unbaptized in those deep waters of learning that do anoint with a sovereignty him that partaketh of that most noble sacrament, investing him with reverend state to the mental eye of the humble mortal […]
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Sandy Quotes in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court quotes below are all either spoken by Sandy or refer to Sandy. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 16
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La Cote was much depressed, for he had scored here the worst failure of his campaign. He had not worked off a cake; yet he had tried all the tricks of the trade, even to the washing of a hermit; but the hermit died. This was indeed a bad failure, for this animal would now be dubbed a martyr, and would take his place among the saints of the Roman calendar. Thus made he his moan, this poor Sir La Cote Male Taile, and sorrowed passing sore. And so my heart bled for him, and I was moved to comfort and stay him. Wherefore I said—
“Forbear to grieve, fair knight, for this is not a defeat. We have brains you and I; and for such as have brains there are no defeats, but only victories.”
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Chapter 21
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Early in the afternoon we overtook another procession of pilgrims; but in this one there was no merriment, no jokes, no laughter, no playful ways, nor any happy giddiness, whether of youth or of age. Yet both were here […] Even the children were smileless; there was not a face among all these half a hundred people but was cast down and bore that set expression of hopelessness which is red of long and hard trials and old acquaintance with despair. They were slaves.
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Chapter 22
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“Yes, keep open. Isn’t that plain enough? Do [the hermits] knock off at noon?”
“Knock off?”
“Knock off—yes, knock off. What is the matter with knock off? I never saw such a dunderhead; can’t you understand anything at all? In plain terms, do they shut up shop, draw the game, bank the fires—”
“Shut up shop, draw—”
“There, never mind, let it go. You make me tired. You can’t seem to understand the simplest thing.”
“I would I might please thee, sir, and it is to me dole and sorrow that I should fail, albeit sith I am but a simple damsel and taught of none, being from the cradle unbaptized in those deep waters of learning that do anoint with a sovereignty him that partaketh of that most noble sacrament, investing him with reverend state to the mental eye of the humble mortal […]
