What does this quote mean? "After some six weeks fatting amongst those Savage courtiers, at the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine."
I like splitting up the phrases of quotes like this to make it easier to understand.
"After some 6 weeks fatting amongst those savage courtiers" – after character has spent 6 weeks preparing for execution (lamb fattened for slaughter)...
"At the minute of my execution" – just before/as I was about to be executed...
"she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine" – she (feminine character) risked her own life (beating out of brains = death) to save his life.
