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I have repented my sins and confessed them and been absolved . Now, Gwenhwyfar thought, anyone who had seen them both should have known the relationship, for their smiles were the same. Sister, said Arthur, I have had an offer of marriage for you. And then she knew, as if she had heard it, the voice of a priest speaking to the trembling Gwenhwyfar-was it now or whe

I will await you in Camelot when you come thither in triumph. I suppose it is the nearest a layman can come to being a priest, to take vows that he will always serve his king and his land and his God with his arms. And as she spoke she saw this same Nimue grown to tall womanhood, pale and serious with the blue crescent painted between her brows, and the shadow of the Death-crone . On the day of the ordeal of initiation she had felt this for a moment, but she had firmly put her fear aside.