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When at length he slackened speed and came to a halt with a shudder, Graul looked up and saw the stars overhead and a glimmering scarp of granite, and knew it for the gray rock, Cara Clowz. By the base of it he lowered Niotte to the ground, dismounted, and began to climb, leading Rubh by the bridle and seeking for a pathway. Behind him the voices of crashing trees filled the windless night.
He hath a daughter too, who once sought to mar our trade with her gittern; a daughter, then in a kirtle that I would not have nimmed from a hedge, but whom I last saw in sarcenet and lawn, with a great lord for her fere." The tymbestere's eyes shone with malignant envy, as she added, "Graul Skellet loves not to see those who have worn worsted and say walk in sarcenet and lawn.
Say the word, and pledge me the draught." "Well, well, mulier abominabilis! that is, irresistible bonnibell. "It is magic," said Graul, with joy. "Ay, magic." "I will bring thee the wizard. But listen; he never stirs abroad, save with his daughter. I must bring both." "Nay, I want not the girl."
Graul turned; but as she gained the door, she stopped, and said abruptly, throwing back her hood, "What age dost thou deem me?" "Marry," quoth the friar, "an' I had not seen thee on thy mother's knee when she followed my stage of tregetour, I should have guessed thee for thirty; but thou hast led too jolly a life to look still in the blossom. Why speer'st thou the question?"
They prove that, however it befell, we must date the inundation some centuries earlier. Now if my story be true But let it be told: * In the year of the great tide Graul, son of Graul, was king in the Lyonnesse.
"We ask no man his business until he has feasted." "I feast not in a house of mourning; and my business is better spoken soon than late, seeing that I heal griefs." "If that be so," answered Graul, "you come to those who are fain of you." And then and there he told of Gwennolar. "The blessing of blessings rest on him who can still my child's voice and deliver her from my people's curse!"
Say the word, and pledge me the draught." "Well, well, mulier abominabilis! that is, irresistible bonnibell. "It is magic," said Graul, with joy. "Ay, magic." "I will bring thee the wizard. But listen; he never stirs abroad, save with his daughter. I must bring both." "Nay, I want not the girl."
"Because when trooper and ribaud say to me, 'Graul, thou art too worn and too old to drink of our cup and sit in the lap, to follow the young fere to the battle, and weave the blithe dance in the fair, I would depart from my sisters, and have a hut of my own, and a black cat without a white hair, and steal herbs by the new moon, and bones from the charnel, and curse those whom I hate, and cleave the misty air on a besom, like Mother Halkin of Edmonton.
But, at the sound of martial music, the tymbesteres silenced their own instruments, and instead of flying, they darted through the crowd, each to seek the other, and unite as for counsel. Graul, pointing to Mr.
One black noon in November a company of men crossed the sands at low-water and demanded to speak with the King. "Speak, my children," said Graul. He knew that they loved him and might count on his sharing the last crust with them. "We are come," said the spokesman, "not for ourselves, but for our wives and children.
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