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"Who?" said Madame von Brandt, once more searching her pocket. "The king," Morien answered, surprised at the question; "he must have left the saloon; I saw him a few moments since in conversation with Pollnitz." "With Pollnitz," said she eagerly, and she searched again in every direction for him.
When they beheld each other they gave fair and courteous greeting, the one to the other, and Sir Gariet spake. "May He who can do all things shew favour and honour to ye Sir Knight, and to all who be with ye there within!" Sir Agloval looked upon Morien, and marked right well the fashion of him, and marvelled within himself what manner of knight he might well be who bare such guise.
I shall return, be ye sure of it, when the time is ripe, and shall ever think of ye as my father." Then all thanked Morien, deeming that as at that time no better counsel might be found; and Sir Gariet and Morien alike besought of Sir Perceval that he would ride with them, to aid the queen and release King Arthur, and bring comfort to his land.
Thus must the king, being captive, stand at King Arthur's pleasure to pay him such ransom as he might think good. Of him will I speak no more. Now was King Arthur so blithe thereof that he bid hold a great court, that he might give largesse to all who desired. Thither came many, but none were there of such renown, or who had wrought such valiant deeds, as Sir Perceval and Morien.
They were above measure joyful, those three knights, at that time, and with them the hermit, for they would in no wise forget him, but he must eat and drink with them. When the meal was ended then Morien thought to ride on his way. But the good knight Sir Gariet said, "Sir Knight ye will do better to abide than to depart in this haste, in short while shall ye have trouble an ye seek your father.
So far as the story of Morien is concerned, the form is probably later than the tradition it embodies. As the romance now stands it is an introduction to the Queste, with which volume iii. But the opening lines of the present version show clearly that in one important point, at least, the story has undergone a radical modification.
Their limbs were bandaged, some the arm, some the leg, some the head, and stained with blood. And Sir Gawain, who sat there sore mishandled, knew that well, and as Morien came nigh, he cried, so that all might hear: "Dear my comrade, ye be welcome. God give me joy of your coming hither! I am Gawain, your comrade; little did I foresee this mischance when we parted, you and I, at this cross-way!
"Have you noticed her parure of diamonds?" whispered the Countess Moltke to Fran von Morien. "If they are real, then she wears an estate upon her shoulders." "The family estate of Von Leuthen," laughingly replied Frau von Morien. "You know, I suppose, that the father of General von Leuthen was a brick-burner, and he may have succeeded in changing a few bricks into diamonds."
Further spake the knight Sir Gariet: "Even should he be beside himself when he first see ye, I shall not let him free ere he have taken us to the further shore, or I shall have from him such forfeit 'twere better for him to be sunken and drowned in the depths of the sea!" Then answered Morien: "Ye have found the best counsel that may be devised.
Then as Morien stood by the window, it seemed to him that he saw a knight come riding in great haste, on a horse tall and swift; he was well armed, and seemed a goodly knight withal. Morien spake to Sir Gawain as he lay there. "What may this be? Here cometh a knight, and I know not whither he goeth!"
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