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.But if Y' like me way o' doin' things, we kin discuss somethin' morepermanent.'I probably should have been offended by the way he just walkedinto my life and took charge, but I wasn't.Quite obviously, he wasright.In this particular sphere of human activity, I was indeed a,poor lost lamb'.We talked for a bit longer, and Killane modestlyconfessed to being 'th' best builder in all Arendia, don't y' know'.Then we went through the house and I told him what I wanted.Heagreed with most of my ideas, and pointed out the flaws in thenotions with which he disagreed.Then, once our survey had beencompleted, he passed judgement.He rather fondly patted one ofthe walls.'She's still a sound old dear, though she's been sorelyneglected.We kin have her back in shape in jig time.' Then helooked at me rather sternly.'Let me tell y' right at th' outset, Lady-o,I'll not be after cuttin' no corners, so this is goin' t' bite yer pursea wee bit.But y'll be after livin' here fer a long time, an' I'll not bePuttin' meself t' shame by havin' th' old dear fallin' down aboutyer ears a few years hence.Y'll be havin' notions that just won'twork, an' I'll be after tellin' y' right t' yer face that yer bein' silly.Yer a spirited lady, I've noticed, so we'll scream at each other fromtime t' time, but when it's all done, y'll have a house y' kin be proudt' live in.''That's all I really want, Killane,' I told him.'Then it's settled.Y' kin go back t' yer embroidery now, Lady-o.Just leave th' old dear t' me.I'll fix her.'I've known very few men who've had such straightforwardhonesty, and I liked Killane right from the outset.As a matter of fact,I was so impressed by him that I ultimately married a man whocould have been his brother.I stopped by my house a few times while it was being renovated.skelt and his assorted cousins, brothers, and what-not were a sullengroup now, but most of the cuts and bruises had healed.Killanedrove them unmercifully, and the work was progressing, thoughfar too slowly to suit me.I really wanted to get out of that palace.it was more to get away - and to avoid nagging Killane - that Irode on down to Vo Mandor that autumn to pay a call on Asranaand Mandorin.That odd marriage seemed to be working far betterthan any of us could possibly have had reason to believe that itmight.Mandorin was absolutely enthralled by the mischievousAsrana, and his expression of vapid adoration had the peculiar effectof curbing some of her more outrageous pranks.Their marital bliss,however, failed to dull their political acumen, and they weregenerally successful in keeping the Mimbrates and Asturians from eachother's throats.It began to get a bit cloying after a while, so I went on down toVo Mimbre to look in on Duke Corrolin.There were Tolnedranmerchants in Vo Mimbre, naturally, since Tolnedra lay just acrossthe river, but a bit of careful probing verified the fact that they reallywere Tolnedrans instead of Dagashi.Evidently the nose-bleed I'dgiven Ctuchik had persuaded him to pull in his horns.Then, just to avoid any seeming favoritism, I rode on north tovisit Mangaran in Vo Astur.There were some problems there, butI saw no evidence that they were of Murgo origin.The removal ofOldoran from the seat of power had mightily offended his family,who for some generations had looked upon all of Asturia as a piestate.For the most part, Oldoran's relatives were incompetentswho satisfied their urges toward belligerence by denouncingMangaran in highly unflattering terms.One nephew, however, a scruffy,uncouth young man named Nerasin, had actually gone beyonddenunciation and was busily forming alliances in preparation forthe day when the elderly Mangaran should die and the Asturianthrone would fall into the hands of whoever was nimble enough toseize it.I had the strong feeling that Nerasin would have to be dealtwith eventually, but for right now, Mangaran's grip on power wasfirm enough to keep the young trouble-maker in line.I visited with Mangaran for a week or so, and then I went onback to Vo Wacune to see how Killane was coming with therenovations.It was autumn by now, and, though the Arendish forestconsisted largely of evergreens, there were enough groves of maple,birch, and aspen to add vivid reds, yellows, and pale oranges to thevast wood, and there was that faintly dusty smell of autumn in theair.I found that to be absolutely lovely, and I didn't really hurryas I rode east.I reached the city of Vo Wacune about mid-afternoonon a lovely autumn day, passed through the ornate city gates [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]
