Warwick Deeping

Name: Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X
Author: Warwick Deeping

Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X (1903)

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“Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X”, published in 1903, is a work by Warwick Deeping. It explores elements such as Igraine, Pelleas and red harness.

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Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X (1903)

“ The armour was like the armour of Pelleas, but the face was the face of the man Gorlois.
And now the eyes under the shadow of the cromlech were full and strong upon Igraine. Breathing fast with a hand at her throat she stepped back from Gorlois--hesitated--stood still. She was very white, and her eyes were big and sightless like the eyes of one walking in a dream. For all her strength, her scorn, and the tricking of her heart, she was being swept like a cloud into the embraces of the sun. Reason, power, love, sank away and became as nothing. ”

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Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X (1903)

“ Igraine saw the man on the forest's edge where an arch of gloom struck into the inner shadows. He was facing the west, motionless as stone on his black horse, with the slanting light plucking a dull red gleam from his harness. There was a mystery about him that seemed to harmonise with the stillness of the trees and the black yawn of the forest galleries. Igraine imagined that he might be in a mood at last to speak with her if he believed her human. At all events, if he took to the trees, and she did not lose him, she would have the vantage of him and his horse in such a barricaded place. ”

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Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X (1903)

“ Presently as the day died the wood went black as the winter night, and Igraine kept close by the man, with his armour giving a dull gleam now and again to guide her. They were passing up what seemed to be a great arcade cut through the very heart of the wood, as though leading to some shrine or altar, relic of Druid days, or times yet more antique. The tunnel ran a curved course, bending deeper and deeper as it went into the dense horde of trees. So dark was the wood that it was possible to see but a few paces in advance, and Igraine wondered how the man kept the track. ”

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Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X (1903)

“ Queer phantastic shapes showed amid the trees, and the great circle grew wide with light, and the grey cromlechs surprised in sleep by the glare and piping. At that very moment Igraine had a thought of some one looking deep into her eyes, of a will, a power, streaming in upon her like sunlight into a sleepy pool. Her desire went from the man on the black horse into the square shadow of the great central cromlech, where an indefinite influence seemed to lurk. ”

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Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X (1903)

“ Maugre her heat and her flushed face Igraine had no more thought of giving in than she had of marrying Gorlois. With Pelleas so near she had made her vow to follow him, and follow him she would like a comet's tail. If needs be she would wear her sandals to the flesh, but catch the man she must in the end.
A mile more on the high-road, with her feet and the hem of her gown dust-drenched, and she was still little nearer the man in the red harness for all her hurrying. ”

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Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X (1903)

“ A grey light came down from the sky, showing great stones piled one upon another, others fallen and sunk deep in rank grass and brambles. The man halted his horse in the very centre of the clearing, with Igraine beside him, watchful for what should happen, and for the moment when Pelleas should unbend. ”

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Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X (1903)

“ His spear stood in the ground by his horse, and he had his shield slung about his neck, and a bare poniard in his hand. It was clear that he was watching for Igraine, for despite her craft he caught sight of her face peering white under the hem of a bush, and climbed quickly into the saddle. Igraine started up, made a dash across the open, calling to him as she ran. Perverse as hate his horse broke into a canter and left her far in the rear. The girl shook her fist at him with a sudden burst of temper. She was standing near the stone where the man bad been sitting. ”

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Warwick Deeping, Uther and Igraine — Book II: Chapter X (1903)

“ If she only had a horse she would come near the man, pride or no pride, and tell him the truth.
Pressing on, with her strained ankle beginning to limp, she topped the round back of a grass rise and came full in view of the wood she had long seen in the distance. ”

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