I would not call her a saint, though I loved her. She said, remembering at random something she had read when she had looked into the books of Uriens' house priest in Wale Oh, yes, Bishop Patricius would call it grievous sin, no doubt, as if his God were some elderly chaperone who went about at night looking to see who slept in whose bed . Only a few birds chirped softly in the trees, and the soft sound of water rippled, falling from the channel which overflowed from the Well to make this still pool.
I saw no messenger-Morgaine, I did not know you wished me well . And, as you say, perhaps it is only longing for my own youth . All the more because she is a Christian, and their religion forbids a man to put his wife away- Morgause shrugged and said, What of that? She has miscarried once, or it may be, more than once. Strange how I am suddenly sure of that again, after all these years, when even the dreams of Avalon are gone.
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