Hereof belike we shall talk
no more, thou and I. For as the days wear, the dealings between us
shall be that thou shalt but get thee away from my life, and I shall
be nought to thee but the name of a kinswoman. Thus should it be
even wert thou to strive to make it otherwise; and thou shalt NOT
strive. So let all this be; for this is not the word I had to say to
thee. But hearken! now are we sundered, and it irketh me beyond
measure that folk know it not, and are kind, and rejoice in our love,
and deem it a happy thing for the folk; and this burden I may bear no
longer. So I shall declare unto men that I will not wed thee; and
belike they may wonder why it is, till they see thee wedded to the
Woman of the Mountain. Art thou content that so it shall be?'
Said Face-of-god: 'Nay, thou shalt not take this all upon thyself; I
also shall declare unto the Folk that I will wed none but her, the
Mountain-Woman.'
She said: 'This shalt thou not do; I forbid it thee. And I WILL
take it all upon myself. Shall I have it said of me that I am unmeet
to wed thee, and that thou hast found me out at last and at latest?
I lay this upon thee, that wheresoever I declare this and whatsoever
I may say, thou shalt hold thy peace.
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