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Chapter 2 II GOLDEN WALTER TAKES SHIP TO SAIL THE SEAS

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d him reverence, and made him all cheer, and showed him his room aboard ship, and the plent

he time about the haven, gazing listlessly on the ships that were making them ready outward, or unlading, and

before, a ship all-boun, which had her boats out, and men sitting to the oars thereof ready to tow her outwards whe

came a dwarf, dark-brown of hue and hideous, with long arms and ears exceeding great and dog-teeth that stuck out like the fan

grey-eyed, brown-haired, with lips full and red, slim and gentle of body. Simple was her arra

anigh her, lift up his eyes again after he had dropped them, and look again on her, and yet again and yet again. Even so did Walter, and as the three passed by him, it seemed to him as if all the other folk there about had vanished and were noug

g ship toward the harbour-mouth with hale and how of men. Then the sail fell down from the yard and was sheeted home and filled with the fair wind as the ship's bows ran up on the first

herewith he went his way from the water-side, and through the streets unto his father's house; but when he was but a little way thence, and the door was before him, him-seemed for a moment of time that he beheld those three coming out down the steps of stone and into the street; to wit the dwarf, the maiden, and the stately lady: but when he stood still to abide their coming, and looked toward them,

so much was his mind entangled in the thought of those three, and they were ever before his eyes, as if they had been painted on a table by the best of limners. And of the two women he thought exceeding much, and cast no wyte upon himself for running after the de

ings; for his heart was full. Then presently the old man went aland; the gangway was unshipped, the hawsers cast off; the oars of the towing-boats splashed in the dark water, the sail fell down from the yard, and was sheeted home, and out plunged the

what the other ship had done; and the thought of it as if the twain were as beads strung on one string and led away by it

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Contents

Chapter 1 I: OF GOLDEN WALTER AND HIS FATHER Chapter 2 II GOLDEN WALTER TAKES SHIP TO SAIL THE SEAS Chapter 3 III WALTER HEARETH TIDINGS OF THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER Chapter 4 IV STORM BEFALLS THE BARTHOLOMEW, AND SHE IS DRIVEN OFF HER COURSE Chapter 5 V NOW THEY COME TO A NEW LAND Chapter 6 WALTER SEES A SHARD IN THE CLIFF-WALL Chapter 7 WALL Chapter 8 VIII WALTER WENDS THE WASTE Chapter 9 IX WALTER HAPPENETH ON THE FIRST OF THOSE THREE CREATURES Chapter 10 X WALTER HAPPENETH ON ANOTHER CREATURE IN THE STRANGE LAND Chapter 11 XI WALTER HAPPENETH ON THE MISTRESS
Chapter 12 XII THE WEARING OF FOUR DAYS IN THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD
Chapter 13 XIII NOW IS THE HUNT UP
Chapter 14 XIV THE HUNTING OF THE HART
Chapter 15 XV THE SLAYING OF THE QUARRY
Chapter 16 XVI OF THE KING'S SON AND THE MAID
Chapter 17 XVII OF THE HOUSE AND THE PLEASANCE IN THE WOOD
Chapter 18 XVIII THE MAID GIVES WALTER TRYST
Chapter 19 XIX WALTER GOES TO FETCH HOME THE LION'S HIDE
Chapter 20 XX WALTER IS BIDDEN TO ANOTHER TRYST
Chapter 21 XXI WALTER AND THE MAID FLEE FROM THE GOLDEN HOUSE
Chapter 22 XXII OF THE DWARF AND THE PARDON
Chapter 23 XXIII OF THE PEACEFUL ENDING OF THAT WILD DAY
Chapter 24 XXIV THE MAID TELLS OF WHAT HAD BEFALLEN HER
Chapter 25 XXV OF THE TRIUMPHANT SUMMER ARRAY OF THE MAID
Chapter 26 XXVI THEY COME TO THE FOLK OF THE BEARS
Chapter 27 XXVII MORNING AMONGST THE BEARS
Chapter 28 XXVIII OF THE NEW GOD OF THE BEARS
Chapter 29 XXIX WALTER STRAYS IN THE PASS AND IS SUNDERED FROM THE MAID
Chapter 30 XXX NOW THEY MEET AGAIN
Chapter 31 XXXI THEY COME UPON NEW FOLK
Chapter 32 WALL No.32
Chapter 33 MAKING IN STARK-WALL
Chapter 34 XXXIV NOW COMETH THE MAID TO THE KING
Chapter 35 WALL AND HIS QUEEN
Chapter 36 XXXVI OF WALTER AND THE MAID IN THE DAYS OF THE KINGSHIP
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