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- vendile considered. "Observe, I do not promise
you success! Yet I would have you remember it was by very much this same device that Count Perion won the sister of Ettarre."
"Heh, if we fail," replies Maugis, "I shall at least have done with remembering. . . ." Then they settled details of the business in hand.
Thus Horvendile returned to Storisende before twilight had thickened into nightfall. He came thus to a place different in all things from the haggard outlaw's camp, for Count Emmerick held that night a noble revel. There was gay talk and jest and dancing, with all other mirth men could devise.
