King Hereafter by Dunnett Dorothy

Author:Dunnett, Dorothy [Dunnett, Dorothy]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1976-08-16T22:00:00+00:00

Then the contests began.

Seated with the rest round the wide, grassy space beside the half-finished church, Groa said to her husband, ‘The dress Thora is wearing. Isn’t that the one you gave her yesterday?’

‘Yes,’ said Thorfinn.

Since Rognvald, things were different with him. Groa waited, and then said, ‘You thought she might not put it on. It means that Harald has taken no offence?’

‘It means,’ Thorfinn said, ‘either that your cousin Thora surprised him last night, or that I am going to have to fight my way through half these contests.’

Then the horse-battle came to an end and a shadow stood over them, belonging to a man of King Harald’s sent to suggest that the Kings should try the first throw in the wrestling-match.

Thorfinn stood up, and Groa jumped to her feet.

‘She didn’t surprise him,’ she said. ‘Shall I go and sit by her?’

Thorfinn surveyed her. ‘I shall fight for my throne,’ he said, ‘if I must. But pay for it with the customs of my marriage-bed I cannot yet bring myself to do. If you give her any news that will make Harald’s pleasures one iota stronger or sweeter, I shall divorce you and buy in four concubines.’

Finn Arnason, waiting for her to sit down again, wondered why his daughter was laughing so much, and then wished she were closer, for he thought, before she lifted her hand to her cheek, that he saw the glitter of tears on it.

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