said the man to his next neighbor . `` Do you see ? He wears but one sandal ! '' Upon this , first one person , and then another , began to stare at Jason , and everybody seemed to be greatly struck with something in his aspect ; though they turned their eyes much oftener towards his feet than to any other part of his figure . Besides , he could hear them whispering to one another . `` One sandal ! One sandal ! '' they kept saying . `` The man with one sandal ! Here he is at last ! Whence has he come ? What does he mean to do ? What will the king say to the one-sandaled man ? '' Poor Jason was greatly abashed , and made up his mind that the people of Iolchos were exceedingly ill-bred , to take such public notice of an accidental deficiency in his dress . Meanwhile , whether it were that they hustled him forward , or that Jason , of his own accord , thrust a passage through the crowd , it so happened that he soon found himself close to the smoking altar , where King Pelias was sacrificing the black bull . The murmur and hum of the multitude , in their surprise at the spectacle of Jason with his one bare foot , grew so loud that it disturbed the ceremonies ; and the king , holding the great knife with which he was just going to cut the bull 's throat , turned angrily about , and fixed his eyes on Jason . The people had now withdrawn from around him , so that the youth stood in an open space , near the smoking altar , front to front with the angry King Pelias . `` Who are you ? '' cried the king , with a terrible frown . `` And how dare you make this disturbance , while I am sacrificing a black bull to my father Neptune ? ''
`` It is no fault XXXXX mine , '' answered Jason .
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