Morgaine, who has it from Gorlois-where is my kinswoman Morgaine? I am eager to embrace her! She is ther Ah, Arthur, if you love me, do this, if you wish for God to send us another child! Do you not see how he has punished us by taking our son to himself? You must not speak so, he said firmly. She had renounced her state as priestess, leaving behind her even the little sickle knife of her initiation; and in the Morgaine was glad to see him; it had been a long and weary springtime.
No! she cried, huddling her clothes about her. How long have you known me, Elaine? Have you ever known me do anything so dishonorable or wicked that you would hesitate to entrust a child to m If I carry her with my own hands when I can hardly drag myself along on a stick, do you not think there is a reason, madam? Elaine bent her head like a scolded child and said, I meant no harm, sir. Near dusk some fowls clucked in the abandoned court; hens were creatures of habit, they had not yet learned that they could not come here to be fed.
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