Not long shall Matelgar, the treacherous, hold your place--but you shall be in honour again of all men.

Only must you forego your vengeance and leave that to the hand of the Lord, who repays." "What must I do now, Father ?" I asked, in a low voice.
"Go your own way, my son, and, as you were bidden, depart from this kingdom as you will and whither; and what shall be, shall be.

Fighting there is for you, both within and without: but the battle within will be the sorest: for I know that the longing for revenge will abide with you, and that is hard to overcome.

Yet remember the message of forbearance." Then I cried out that I must surely be revenged and the good man strove with me with many and sweet words, till he had quieted the thought within me again.

Yet I longed for it.
So we talked till the sun sank, and he must go ere darkness fell.