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The Wood Beyond the World

The Wood Beyond the World

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Chapter 1 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

s about his business, and there was no more

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1 Chapter 1 I: OF GOLDEN WALTER AND HIS FATHER2 Chapter 2 II GOLDEN WALTER TAKES SHIP TO SAIL THE SEAS3 Chapter 3 III WALTER HEARETH TIDINGS OF THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER4 Chapter 4 IV STORM BEFALLS THE BARTHOLOMEW, AND SHE IS DRIVEN OFF HER COURSE5 Chapter 5 V NOW THEY COME TO A NEW LAND6 Chapter 6 WALTER SEES A SHARD IN THE CLIFF-WALL7 Chapter 7 WALL8 Chapter 8 VIII WALTER WENDS THE WASTE9 Chapter 9 IX WALTER HAPPENETH ON THE FIRST OF THOSE THREE CREATURES10 Chapter 10 X WALTER HAPPENETH ON ANOTHER CREATURE IN THE STRANGE LAND11 Chapter 11 XI WALTER HAPPENETH ON THE MISTRESS12 Chapter 12 XII THE WEARING OF FOUR DAYS IN THE WOOD BEYOND THE WORLD13 Chapter 13 XIII NOW IS THE HUNT UP14 Chapter 14 XIV THE HUNTING OF THE HART15 Chapter 15 XV THE SLAYING OF THE QUARRY16 Chapter 16 XVI OF THE KING'S SON AND THE MAID17 Chapter 17 XVII OF THE HOUSE AND THE PLEASANCE IN THE WOOD18 Chapter 18 XVIII THE MAID GIVES WALTER TRYST19 Chapter 19 XIX WALTER GOES TO FETCH HOME THE LION'S HIDE20 Chapter 20 XX WALTER IS BIDDEN TO ANOTHER TRYST21 Chapter 21 XXI WALTER AND THE MAID FLEE FROM THE GOLDEN HOUSE22 Chapter 22 XXII OF THE DWARF AND THE PARDON23 Chapter 23 XXIII OF THE PEACEFUL ENDING OF THAT WILD DAY24 Chapter 24 XXIV THE MAID TELLS OF WHAT HAD BEFALLEN HER25 Chapter 25 XXV OF THE TRIUMPHANT SUMMER ARRAY OF THE MAID26 Chapter 26 XXVI THEY COME TO THE FOLK OF THE BEARS27 Chapter 27 XXVII MORNING AMONGST THE BEARS28 Chapter 28 XXVIII OF THE NEW GOD OF THE BEARS29 Chapter 29 XXIX WALTER STRAYS IN THE PASS AND IS SUNDERED FROM THE MAID30 Chapter 30 XXX NOW THEY MEET AGAIN31 Chapter 31 XXXI THEY COME UPON NEW FOLK32 Chapter 32 WALL No.3233 Chapter 33 MAKING IN STARK-WALL34 Chapter 34 XXXIV NOW COMETH THE MAID TO THE KING35 Chapter 35 WALL AND HIS QUEEN36 Chapter 36 XXXVI OF WALTER AND THE MAID IN THE DAYS OF THE KINGSHIP