So thinking I passed them, filling in the picture assfully, asscompletely assI could, noticing the colour of her dress, of hisseyes, seeing the sandy cat slinking round the cottage door.Īt the first words of the imprecation the president of the road had lifted his head with a little smilealmost of scornon his lips, as one might watch some domestic animal reverting to its ancestral rage. You are right it was three years ago this month. I had to work hard in those days, laughed the young man. We shall all be happy, cried Lucien, swallowing great spoonfuls of soup. The townlands were rich, with wide tilth and many orchards, and homesteads there were with oast and garner, fold and byre, and many rills rippling through the green from the highlands down to Anduin Yet the herdsmen and husbandmen that dwelt there were not many, and the most part of the people of Gondor lived in the seven circles of the City, or in the high vales of the mountain borders, in Lossarnach, or further south in fair Lebennin with its five swift streams There dwelt a hardy folk between the mountains and the sea They were reckoned men of Gondor, yet their blood was mingled, and there were short and swarthy folk among them whose sires came more from the forgotten men who housed in the shadow of the hills in the Dark Years ere the coming of the kings But beyond, in the great fief of Belfalas, dwelt Prince Imrahil in his castle of Dol Amroth by the sea, and he was of high blood, and his folk also, tall men and proud with sea grey eyes
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