"Kneel before the Count!" he cried in a strangled voice (the chipmunks booed). "Kneel before Monsieur the Seigneur des Anneaux! He is the saviour, the benefactor of our father! He's ..."
The Count silenced him by seizing his arm, before he could say, "He's Samouard Gamgès!"
Bilbette elanced herself upon the Count's hand; Armalvéguil embraced him like a tutelary divinity; Morrie fell prostrate again, striking the floor with his forehead.
Then the man of bronze† felt dilate his heart within his bosom, like unto the Grinche when he heard the songs of the Qui, a jet of devouring flame gushed from his throat to his Eye, he bowed his head and wept!
Bilbette had barely recovered from the emotion so profound that she had just experienced, when she elanced herself out of the chamber, ran downstairs to the salon with childlike joy, and seized the globe of crystal that protected the purse given her by Éarendeau le marin in day of yore.
"Ilouvatar and the Valards are my witness," said Monte Fato, "that I wished to bury this secret during my entire life within the depths of my soul; your brother Meurtrier forced it from me by violences whereof he doubtless now repents."
† Some scholars maintain that Dunadas meant this quite literally, and that the Count was an android. But that is obviously rubbish.
