Accolon came formally to embrace his brother, to bow before his brother's wife; he knelt and kissed his father's hand and then turned to Morgaine. If the Goddess wants this sword returned, then she herself will have to take it from my hands. The feasters seated themselves, and Arthur said, Now bring before me any petitioners. I ask only that you give me your first daughter to be schooled at Avalon.
She is not a girl, but she seems all the more beautiful for that. I think I must have known that you were coming- and then she recalled the moment of the Sight, last night; indeed, she had known. and even if it has not, have I the right to continue as Lady when the Sight has left me?For a moment, when she came to the Lake, she Ah, but I had forgotten, you are so pious a lady, you look never on the beauty of any man save your own wedded husband.
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