"We? We can go on."

"But if they seek to prevent us?"

He clenched his hands. He looked round as if the little people were

already coming to prevent them. Then turned away from her and looked

about the world. "Yes," he said. "Your question was the right one. What

can they do?"

Here in this little land," she said, and stopped.

He seemed to survey it all. "They are everywhere."

But we might--"

Whither?"

We could go. We could swim the seas together. Beyond the seas--"

I have never been beyond the seas."

There are great and desolate mountains amidst which we should seem no

more than little people, there are remote and deserted valleys, there

are hidden lakes and snow-girdled uplands untrodden by the feet of men.

There--"

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