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Valmai wandering about the world friendless and alone! The thought was distracting, and in desperation he rushed out of the house. "Poor fellow," said Lewis Wynne, "this is a terrible blow to him." "Yes, yes, indeed! Perhaps he will be able to get some clue in the village." Cardo flew over the beach and up the well-known path to Dinas. Shoni was standing in the farm-yard.
The eastern side is bounded by lofty hills, and towards the north the vale is crossed by three rugged elevations, the middlemost of which, called, as an old man told me, Bryn Dinas, terminates to the west in an exceedingly high and picturesque crag. After an hour's walking I overtook two people, a man and a woman laden with baskets which hung around them on every side.
Then was King Mark sorry and wroth out of measure that he had no knight to revenge his nephew, Sir Andred. So the king called unto him Sir Dinas, the Seneschal, and prayed him for his sake to take upon him to joust with Sir Uwaine. Yet, said the king, for my love take upon thee to joust.
It is usually supposed to be an English word, but of Welsh derivation, and is no doubt related to dinas, in Welsh the exact equivalent to the Saxon burg. The Welsh still call it Penarlas, a word the etymology of which points to a period when the lowlands of Saltney were under water, and the Castle looked over a lake.
The view over the vale is very beautiful; but on no side, except in the direction of the west, is it very extensive; Dinas Bran being on all other sides overtopped by other hills: in that direction, indeed, the view is extensive enough, reaching on a fine day even to the Wyddfa or peak of Snowdon, a distance of sixty miles, at least as some say, who perhaps ought to add to very good eyes, which mine are not.
"Last night I was under the elder bushes, and saw you reading to your uncle. I watched you for a long time." Valmai was silent. "You are not vexed with me for that?" She was still silent; a tumult of happy thoughts filled her mind. He had found his way to Dinas! He had thought it worth while to stand under the night sky and watch her! It was a pleasant idea, and, thinking of it, she did not speak.
When she recovered and was able to speak, she said, in pitiful accents, "Gentle seneschal, I pray you bring him where I may speak with him, or my heart will break." "Trust me for that," answered Dinas. Then he and Dame Bragwaine brought Tristram and Kehydius privately to the court, and to a chamber which Isolde had assigned for them.
Dinas Bran, which crowns the top of the mighty hill on the northern side of the valley, is a ruined stronghold of unknown antiquity. The name is generally supposed to signify Crow Castle, bran being the British word for crow, and flocks of crows being frequently seen hovering over it.
"Oh, calon fâch! to think your little white hands have been working for me! Now I will cut the bread and butter thin, thin as befits a lady like you; and sorry I am that it is barley bread. I don't forget the beautiful white cakes and the white sugar you gave me at Dinas the other day! And your uncle, how is he?"
At last, crossing the beach, he took his way up the steep path that led to Dinas. As he rounded a little clump of stunted pine trees he came in sight of the house, grey, gaunt, and bare, not old enough to be picturesque, but too old to look neat and comfortable, on that wind-swept, storm-beaten cliff.
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