Well, and so I do, said Uriens fretfully, but Avalloch, too, says I should cut it down, so that the pagans should have no place of resort. To hear you sing my kinsman Lancelet's praises, I thought you believed no man could be a good knight unless he were handsome and full of this kind of courtly matters. Accolon is clever, but he is only a younger son-I do not know if your people would listen to him. I knew it not either when he came to court, Gawaine said.
When she had thought of it, she had even been pleased; Lancelet's son, by her own cousin Elaine-now dead in childbed -was a reasonable heir for the King. My father was Duke Gorlois, the first man Uther Pendragon killed as a traitor . The dresses worn at court were more elaborate than the simple robes she had worn as a priestess, and she felt clumsy, awkward. Morgaine saw it through a blur of tears; she swayed in the boat and would have fallen, except for a hand laid on her shoulder.
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