"
"Friend," he said, "here give I you Toothold."
"Friend," she replied, "take you this ring in reward."
And they kissed each other on the lips.
Now Ogrin, having left the lovers in the Hermitage, hobbled upon his
crutch to the place called The Mount, and he bought ermine there and
fur and cloth of silk and purple and scarlet, and a palfrey harnessed
in gold that went softly, and the folk laughed to see him spending
upon these the small moneys he had amassed so long; but the old man
put the rich stuffs upon the palfrey and came back to Iseult.
And "Queen," said he, "take these gifts of mine that you may seem the
finer on the day when you come to the Ford."
Meanwhile the King had had cried through Cornwall the news that on the
third day he would make his peace with the Queen at the Ford, and
knights and ladies came in a crowd to the gathering, for all loved the
Queen and would see her, save the three felons that yet survived.
On the day chosen for the meeting, the field shone far with the rich
tents of the barons, and suddenly Tristan and Iseult came out at the
forest's edge, and caught sight of King Mark far off among his Barony:
"Friend," said Tristan, "there is the King, your lord--his knights and
his men; they are coming towards us, and very soon we may not speak to
each other again.
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