Then came the horse games: demonstrations of fancy riding, a man riding an unbroken horse to master it-Morgause fain The nun and the young girl, robed in black, turned and bent their heads before a woman who came from the cloister, and the nun who had guided her said, This is our abbess. It meant nothing to her, but one day it might mean much to have his trust, so that she could do what she chose. Why, Morgaine said, tuning her voice to the broad jesting Uriens liked, I have left you purposely alone, thinking that in your old age you had taken a taste for handsome young men .
She felt her heart pounding. This was the only serious injury, but there were bruises, smashed fingers, men flung senseless to the ground, and one who barely escaped being kicked by a badly trained horse. enjoy it yet more that his knowledge was secret, seemed uncanny to her, so that for a moment she shrank away, almost afraid of her foster-son. And he must come to think himself so, not be contaminated by priests who would tell him his begetting and birth were shameful.
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