She had made the bravest protest: I will not be vanquished.
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So who is our accountant?“
Merlin paused a moment–for drama’s sake, Arthur would later decide–and then said, “Percival.”
It took a moment for the name to register, and when it did, Arthur could scarcely believe it. “Percival … the … ”
“… the Grail knight, yes. Percival. Who were you expecting, Galahad? Great, whining, virgin twit. Never had any patience for him. But Percival, well … he was cut from a very different bolt of cloth.
Ah, Gwenhwyvar! White Goddess of DeDannan’s enigmatic tribe, deeply did I resent you on that day, and deeply, deeply did I fear you. Perhaps I may be forgiven my rancour and alarm. Dearest of hearts, I did not know you. Let it be said that you never repaid my resentment with spite, nor held my fear against me, less yet gave either of them justification. In those next years you proved your nobility a thousand times over.
Merlin about
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Pendragon (The Pendragon Cycle #4) | Stephen R. Lawhead
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I already knew that to question him was useless. (Medraut never asked or answered questions.) His friendliness was a sham. Slim, white-skinned, agile, he was neat-eyed thief loving Mercury using mischievous charm as a weapon. To love Medraut, to be loved by him might be deadly though, with unwonted imprudence, I knew I would keep by him.
In the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in white samite, that held a fair sword in that hand.
Thomas Malory (1405-1471) Le Morte d’Arthur, book 1, chapter 23 (1485)
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Well, what just a little magic can do to a fool, mh? Show him a child, and he sees the face of God. Let him love a woman and what do we have? Not just a whim, but a heart. So I have done well “ For one last time Merlin glanced over the mountains to the north . “All people dream of a place called Midsummer, green days and silver nights. You’ve had this place, Arthur. All people are looking somewhere for their own Morgana; and you found her.
“Firelord”, Parke Godwin
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