'
She said: 'Nevertheless I shall have my will herein. And it is but
a little way I will wend with thee.'
Therewith were they come to the scree, and talk fell down between
them as they clomb it; but when they were in the darksome passage of
the rocks, and could scarce see one another, Face-of-god said:
'Where then is another outgate from the Dale? Is it not up the
water?'
'Yea,' she said, 'and there is none other: at the lower end the
rocks rise sheer from out the water, and a little further down is a
great force thundering betwixt them; so that by no boat or raft may
ye come out of the Dale. But the outgate up the water is called the
Road of War, as this is named the Path of Peace. But now are all
ways ways of war.'
'There is peace in my heart,' said Gold-mane.
She answered not for a while, but pressed his hand, and he felt her
breath on his cheek; and even therewithal they came out of the dark,
and Gold-mane saw that her cheek was flushed; and now she spake:
'One thing would I say to thee, my friend. Thou hast seen me amongst
men of war, amongst outlaws who seek violence; thou hast heard me bid
my brother to count the slain, and I shrinking not; thou knowest (for
I have told thee) how I have schemed and schemed for victorious
battle.
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