TRISTAN AND ISEULT
and her heart grew cold, and without a word she fell at the King's feet.
He took her in his arms and kissed her gently till she could speak again, and then he said:
"Friend, friend, what evil tries you?"
"Sire, I am afraid, for I have seen your anger."
"Yes, I was angered at the hunt."
"My lord, should one take so deeply the mischances of a game?"
Mark smiled and said:
"No, friend; no chance of hunting vexed me, but those three felons whom you know; and I have driven them forth from my land."
"Sire, what did they say, or dare to say of me?"
"What matter? I have driven them forth."
"Sire, all living have this right: to say the word they have conceived. And I would ask a question, but from whom
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