I cannot tell, but because it might be so I begged my father to bring me hither.

It was all that I could do for my godfather." There was just a little quiver in her lip as she said this, and the fierce old king's face softened somewhat.
"Nay," he said, "I meant no unkindness.

I forgot that it is not right to speak to a child as to grown warriors.

It is long since there was a lady about the place who is one of us." Then Nona smiled wanly, and set her hand on that of the old king, and kept it there while she spoke.
"Indeed, Thane, it may be foolishness, and now perhaps as time goes on it begins to seem so to me.

Once, as I know now, on the night when Owen first slept in his new house on the moor, I dreamed that he was in sore danger, for I seemed to see shadows of men creeping everywhere round the house that I have never set eyes on; and again, on the next night, and that was the night of the burning, I saw the house in flames, and men fought and fell around it among the flickering shadows, but I did not seem to see Owen.