'
She sighed therewith, and said: 'In all the Dale there is no better
man of his hands than my man, nor any goodlier to look on, and he is
even that Hart of Highcliff whom thou knowest well, O Bride!'
Said the Bride: 'Thou sayest sooth, there is no better man in the
Dale.'
Said Bow-may: 'Sun-beam bade me wed him when he pressed hard upon
me.' She stayed awhile, and then said: 'Face-of-god also deemed I
should not naysay the man; and now my son by him is of like age to
this little one.'
'Good is thy story,' said Folk-might; 'or deemest thou, Bow-may, that
such strong and goodly women as thou, and women so kind and friendly,
should forbear the wedding and the bringing forth of children? Yea,
and we who may even yet have to gather to another field before we
die, and fight for life and the goods of life.'
'Thou sayest well,' she said; 'all that hath befallen me is good
since the day whereon I loosed shaft from the break of the bent over
yonder.'
Therewith she fell a-musing, and made as though she were hearkening
to the soft voice of the Bride caressing the new-come baby; but in
sooth neither heard nor saw what was going on about her, for her
thoughts were in bygone days.
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