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Though he was a good knight, Gareth's heart was heavy as he listened. 'If I do not see Lyonors for a year, he thought, 'the months will pass more slowly and seem more empty than those long months I spent in the King's kitchen. But as Gareth was a right loyal knight, he bowed to his lady's will.
'A knight to rescue my sister, King Arthur, she cried. 'Who is your sister, and why does she need a knight? asked the King. And Lynette told Arthur that her sister was called the Lady Lyonors, and that Lyonors was rich and had many castles of her own, but a cruel knight, called the Red Knight, had shut her up in one of her own castles.
Then Arthur, looking round his knights, saw Gareth's eyes growing bright, and heard Gareth's voice ringing out, 'Your promise, King. And the King said to Gareth, 'Go and rescue the Lady Lyonors from the Red Knight. 'A kitchen-page go to rescue the Lady Lyonors! shouted Sir Kay in scorn.
"They thought it would make people more afraid if they believed we were four strong knights." Sir Lancelot and Sir Gareth laughed heartily, and so did Lynette. They took the boy into the castle, where Lynette's sister, Lyonors, who was now freed from her money-loving captors, greeted them with much joy. She put before them a great feast, and this time Sir Gareth and Lynette sat side by side.
She had cheeks as pink as apple blossoms, and very sharp eyes. "Who are you, damsel?" asked the king, "and what do you need?" "My name is Lynette," she said, "and I am of noble blood. I need a knight to fight for my sister Lyonors, a lady, also noble, rich, and most beautiful." "Why must she have a knight?" questioned Arthur. "My Lord King, she lives in Castle Perilous.
Then Lynette reminded him of all his victories, and of how even the Black Knight had yielded to him. But what encouraged Gareth more than all Lynette said was that, when he looked up to the castle, he saw a beautiful lady at one of the windows. She smiled and waved her hands to him, and he knew that this was the Lady Lyonors. Then all his courage came back.
Gareth looked again at the window where Lyonors still watched, and hesitating no longer, blew the horn so piercingly and so long, that he woke all the echoes of the wood. Then the Knight of the Red Lands armed himself in great haste, and his barons brought him a red spear, and a steed covered with red silk.
Once more Gareth went back to Lynette a conqueror, but still she cried, 'Do not come near me, kitchen-knave. You have slain a noble knight. Let me ride on alone. 'Whatever happens I will follow you till we reach the Lady Lyonors, said Gareth. They were coming near to Castle Dangerous now, but before they reached it, a knight dressed all in green stopped them.
The allegory by which Gareth's four opponents are made to form a sort of stumbling succession representing Morn, Noon, Evening, and Night or Death, is hardly worth the introduction, but it is not insisted upon: the last of these knights, besieging Castle Perilous in a skull helmet, and clamoring for marriage with Lynette's sister Lyonors, turns out to be a large-sized, fresh-faced and foolish boy, who issues from the skull "as a flower new blown," and fatuously explains that his brothers have dressed him out in burlesque and deposited him as a bugbear at the gate.
'But Lyonors, I must see Lyonors, thought Gareth. 'Surely she will wish to see me, and he looked wistfully up to the window, and there beautiful as ever, was his Lady Lyonors. 'I cannot love you altogether, said Lyonors, 'till you have been King Arthur's knight for another year, and helped to clear the land from his enemies.
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