She knew, after a time, that she was more gravely ill than they had thought . Sir-my lord-what of the Pendragon banner? Arthur said, Take it to the steward, and bid him lay it somewhere away. he tales about yonder Irish queen, married to old Duke Marcus, and how Drustan makes songs for her and follows her about . In God's house we turn no one away.
I am surprised that you were able to come here, kinsman. even so, where the Goddess of the Land alone endures, and the king rules while he shall please her. I shall rule as Lady of Avalon, and you as my consort and duke of war. Fragments of thought flickered in her mind, an old tale of the Goddess surprised and refused by a man and how the Goddess had had him torn to shreds by the hounds who ran hunting with her .
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