Whereas thou-
-' (and therewith he reddened) 'I doubt that thou hast little to do
save the work of chieftains, and we know that such work is but little
missed if it be undone.'
Thereat Folk-might laughed; and when the others saw that he laughed,
they laughed also, else had they foreborne for courtesy's sake.
But Folk-might answered: 'Nay, chief of the Sickle, I am not
altogether a chieftain, now we have gotten us peace; and somewhat of
a husbandman shall I be. Moreover, doubt ye not that I shall do my
utmost to behold the fair Dale again; for it is but mountains that
meet not.'
Now spake Face-of-god to Folk-might, smiling and somewhat softly, and
said: 'Is all forgiven now, since the day when we first felt each
other's arms?'
'Yea, all,' said Folk-might; 'now hath befallen what I foretold thee
in Shadowy Vale, that thou mightest pay for all that had come and
gone, if thou wouldest but look to it. Indeed thou wert angry with
me for that saying on that eve of Shadowy Vale; but see thou, in
those days I was an older man than thou, and might admonish thee
somewhat; but now, though but few days have gone over thine head, yet
many deeds have abided in thine hand, and thou art much aged.
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