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He was gone before his mother's answer could leave her lips; but there was a light in her eyes and a tone in her voice that made her a different woman as she said, "We will not talk of Miss Lugur tonight, John. There is plenty else to talk about. She is non-essential, and I believe in the man who said, 'Skip the non-essentials." This proposal was carried out with all John's wisdom and kindness.
"Go that you and Yolara and your Shining One may die together! Death for you, Lugur death for you all! Remember Lugur death!" There was a great noise within my head no matter, Lakla was here Lakla here but too late Lugur had outplayed us; moss death nor dragon worm had frightened him away he had crept back to trap us Lakla had come too late Larry was dead Larry!
He told Lugur all that he had told himself, and the warmth and eagerness of his pleading touched the man deeply, though he did not interrupt him until he said, "I am going for a year's travel, and I want to marry Lucy, and take her with me." Then he asked, "Have you spoken to my daughter on the subject of marriage?" "I want your permission in order to gain hers."
"Well, sir, we breed our own tempers in Hatton, and we can frame to put up with them but strangers!" and Jonathan appeared to have no words to express his suspicion of strangers. "If Lugur is quarrelsome he must leave Hatton. I will not give him house room." "You hev a good deal of influence, sir, but you can't move Lugur. No, you can't.
"Lo, for laya upon laya, the Shining One has been freed from the Three; and for laya upon laya they have sat helpless, rotting. Now I ask you again whence comes their power to lay their will upon me, and whence comes their strength to wrestle with the Shining One and the beloved of the Shining One?" And again she laughed and again Lugur and all the fairhaired joined in her laughter.
"Does she know that you love her?" "I have not told her so. I ask that you take me now to your home that I may speak to her this hour." Lugur made no further remark, until they reached the schoolmaster's house. Then he said, "There is a light, as you may see, in the right-hand room; Lucy is there. Tell her I gave you permission to call on her.
"O heart of mine!" she whispered to Larry, gazing deep into his eyes, his anxious face cupped between her white palms. "This they say that should the Shining One come to succour Yolara and Lugur, should it conquer its fear and do this then is there but one way left to destroy it and to save your world." She swayed; he gripped her tightly. "But one way you and I must go together into its embrace!
But for long the Murians feared the return of the Taithu and greatly they feared the Three. Even the Shining One feared those who had created it for a time; and not even now is it eager to face them that I know. Nor are Yolara and Lugur so sure. It may be that the Three commanded it: but how or why I know not. I only know that it is true for here am I and from where else would I have come?"
"He has a good heart," said Lugur, "and when I learned you were moving in such a sensible way for his salvation, I wanted to help. The improvements I have made at Yoden were not carelessly chosen. Harry loves beautiful surroundings. They may mean little to you or to me, but to him they are almost necessary. He is easily persuaded, but you cannot reason with him.
And not long after we swung past where the shadow had hung and hovered over the shining depths of the Midnight Pool. Upon Lakla's insistence we passed on to the palace of Lugur, not to Yolara's I do not know why, but go there then she would not. And within one of its columned rooms, maidens of the black-haired folks, the wistfulness, the fear, all gone from their sparkling eyes, served us.
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