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The Well at the World's End

CHAPTER 29
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Maybe thou art seeking for what is not.

Or maybe thou shalt seek and shalt find, and there may be naught in what thou findest, whereof to give thee such gifts as are meet for thy faithfulness and valiancy.

But in thine home shouldst thou have all gifts which thou mayest desire." Then was she silent awhile, and then spake: "Yet must I needs say that I would that thine home were in Goldburg." He smiled sadly and looked on her, but with no astonishment, and indeed he still scarce thought of her as he said: "Lady and Queen, thou art good to me beyond measure.

Yet, look you! One home I had, and left it; another I looked to have, and I lost it; and now I have no home.
Maybe in days to come I shall go back to mine old home; and whiles I wonder with what eyes it will look on me.

For merry is that land, and dear; and I have become sorrowful." "Fear not," she said; "I say again that in thine home shall all things look kindly on thee." Once more she sat silent, and no word did his heart bid him speak.
Then she sighed and said: "Fair lord, I bid thee come and go in this house as thou wilt; but whereas there are many folk who must needs see me, and many things are appointed for me to do, therefore I pray thee to come hither in three days' space, and meanwhile I will look to the matter of thy search, that I may speed thee on the way to Utterness, which is no great way from Utterbol, and is the last town whereof we know aught.


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