I thought it only likely that she might die in breeding, so I wished not to meddle with what happiness Arthur might have -then could we have found him, afterward, a more suitable wife. Arthur too was tainted by that background, though she had gotten him to go often to mass and to speak of himself as Christian. But if it is true that this morning he has given me his child to bear . I am High Queen of all Britain; the only other to bear that title sleeps here beneath the earth .
It seemed that for a moment all the sounds of Avalon were hushed around her, as if the very waves of the Lake and the whispering sound of the reeds on the border were silent to hear her say it. It seemed to her that there was no other way to interpret the girl's words. but she could not dismiss the sudden fear that this was, indeed, Uriens' child . He looked ill, but where normally he would have tried to make more of it for her attention, she saw that he turned quickly away as if ashamed.
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