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but while Lancelet might uncover his own misery to her, he would not speak of Elaine; he had only said, stiffl Would that my voice had grown sweeter as I grew old, said Viviane good-humoredly, but the Dark Mother has not willed it so. Then who? She did not speak; he leaned over and took her shoulders so roughly that for a moment she was afraid of the warrior as she had never been of the lover. I cursed not yours, remember that.

Gareth was easy to find among them-he was the tallest man in Arthur's whole company, and his fair hair blazed like a halo. The grass was thick and soft and sometimes the women sat there on a bright afternoon. Viviane would have come from Avalon to charge him with oath-breaking, he said, but she is reluctant to do so before all his people. As Arthur came toward him he bowed, spoke a few words of excuse to the others, and the King and the Archbishop moved away together through the crowds.