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Updated: May 13, 2025
Now eat your meat, and do what you came here for. Hereafter learn to use your eyes to better purpose." "You dog!" cried Balin, "this is not your first insult to me. You bid me do what I came for. It is this." As he spoke he rose furiously from his seat, drew his sword, and with one fierce blow clove Garlon's head to the shoulders. "That is my errand here," cried Balin to the guests.
But presently as they passed a hermitage fast by a churchyard, came the knight Garlon, again invisible, and smote Sir Perin through the body with a spear, and slew him as he had slain Sir Herleus. Whereat, Sir Balin greatly raged, and swore to have Sir Garlon's life, whenever next he might encounter and behold him in his bodily shape.
"Now give me the truncheon," he said to the damsel, "with which he slew your knight." She gave it to him, and Balin thrust it through Garlon's body, exclaiming, "With that truncheon you killed a good knight, and with this blow I revenge him." Then he called his late host, who had by this gained entrance to the feast, and said, "Here lies your foe.
"But if I let him escape me now it may be long before I have such an opportunity, and in the meanwhile he may do much harm." As he stood thus reflecting, with his eyes fixed on Garlon's face, the latter observed his close and stern regard. In haughty anger he came to him and smote him on the face with the back of his hand. "Sir knight," he said, "take that for your impertinent stare.
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