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He signed to his bard, who, during the conference between wife and lord, had retired to a distance, and said, with a writhing attempt to smile: "Was there truth, thinkest thou, in the legend, that Guenever was false to King Arthur?" "No," answered the bard, divining his lord's thought, for Guenever survived not the King, and they were buried side by side in the Vale of Avallon."
Brisk tourists might even turn the long halt at Avallon to good account, and get a hasty peep of one of the most wonderful sites in this part of France, not so much as hinted at from the railway. Time did not now admit of a two days' halt here. So the train crawled on till the pretty home-like landscape was lost in the twilight, and night over took us.
It was once very lonely in its loveliness, a ground remote, where men could do and did do as they pleased unheeded and unobserved. Where now from April to October a thousand pleasure-boats pass by, where a thousand pleasure-seekers land and linger, a century and a half ago the spirit of solitude brooded, and those who came there came to a calm as unvexed and as enchanting as the calm of Avallon.
At length she spoke, and these were her words: 'When you are weary of travel and of strife and have won all the glory and honour that may fall to men, then you shall come to me in my palace of Avallon, and rest in the joys of fairyland with Morgane le Fay. After that the light began to fade, and the six fairies vanished none could tell how or whither.
At this point, had Cynthia been there, Medenham would have stopped for a while, so that she might admire the far-flung panorama of the "island valley of Avallon" that stretched below the ravine. Out of the green pastures in the middle distance rose the ruined towers of Glastonbury.
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