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The Wood Beyond the World

The Wood Beyond the World

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Chapter I. Of Golden Walter and his Father

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a fair-faced man, yellow-haired, tall and strong; rather wiser than foolisher than young men are mostly wont; a valiant youth, and a kind; not of many w

of the land, a head-man of the greatest of the Lineages of Langton, and a captain of the Porte; he wa

nifest tokens, that his fairness was not so much to her but that she must seek to the foulness of one worser than he in all ways; wherefore his rest departed from him, whereas he hated her for her untruth and her hatred of him; yet would the sound of her voice, as she came and went in the house, make his heart beat; and the sight of

that the world was wide and he but a young man. So on a day as he sat with his father alone, he spake to him and said: "Father, I was on the quays eve

the Katherine, will they warp out of the haven

Walter, "and this it is, that I would de

er, son?" said

er, "for I am ill at ease at h

there was strong love between them; but at last he said: "Well, son,

ather, then shalt tho

u shalt have thine own way herein, she shall no longer abide in my house. Nay, but it were for the strife t

more than needs must be, lest, so doin

in for a while; then he said:

that thou go not away empty-handed; the skipper of the Katherine is a good man and true, and knows the seas well; and my servant Robert the Low, who is clerk of the lading, is trustworthy and wise, and as myself in all matters that look towards chaffer. The Katherine is

ut his business, and there was no more said betwi

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1 Chapter I. Of Golden Walter and his Father2 Chapter II. Golden Walter Takes Ship to Sail the Seas3 Chapter III. Walter Heareth Tidings of the Death of his Father4 Chapter IV. Storm Befalls the Bartholomew, and she is Driven Off Her Course5 Chapter V. Now They Come to a New Land6 Chapter VI. The Old Man Tells Walter of Himself. Walter Sees a Shard in the Cliff-Wall7 Chapter VII. Walter Comes to the Shard in the Rock-Wall8 Chapter VIII. Walter Wends the Waste9 Chapter IX. Walter Happeneth on the First of Those Three Creatures10 Chapter X. Walter Happeneth on Another Creature in the Strange Land11 Chapter XI. Walter Happeneth on the Mistress12 Chapter XII. The Wearing of Four Days in the Wood Beyond the World13 Chapter XIII. Now is the Hunt up14 Chapter XIV. The Hunting of the Hart15 Chapter XV. The Slaying of the Quarry16 Chapter XVI. Of the King's Son and the Maid17 Chapter XVII. Of the House and the Pleasance in the Wood18 Chapter XVIII. The Maid Gives Walter Tryst19 Chapter XIX. Walter Goes to Fetch Home the Lion's Hide20 Chapter XX. Walter is Bidden to Another Tryst21 Chapter XXI. Walter and the Maid Flee from the Golden House22 Chapter XXII. Of the Dwarf and the Pardon23 Chapter XXIII. Of the Peaceful Ending of that Wild Day24 Chapter XXIV. The Maid Tells of what had Befallen Her25 Chapter XXV. Of the Triumphant Summer Array of the Maid26 Chapter XXVI. They Come to the Folk of the Bears27 Chapter XXVII. Morning Amongst the Bears28 Chapter XXVIII. Of the New God of the Bears29 Chapter XXIX. Walter Strays in the Pass and is Sundered from The Maid30 Chapter XXX. Now They Meet Again31 Chapter XXXI. They Come Upon New Folk32 Chapter XXXII. Of the New King of the City and Land of Stark-Wall33 Chapter XXXIII. Concerning the Fashion of King-Making in Stark-Wall34 Chapter XXXIV. Now Cometh the Maid to the King35 Chapter XXXV. Of the King of Stark-Wall and his Queen36 Chapter XXXVI. Of Walter and the Maid in the Days of the Kingship