his face had gone pale , and he may have been visualizing the dungeons ( and i know his mother and father , watching anxiously from the sidelines , were ; if it were n't for bad luck , andy staad was fond of growling , the staads would have no luck at all ) ; more likely he was just sorry for the hurt he fancied he had caused , or was amazed to see that the blood of the future king was as red as his own .