"Stasheff, Christopher - Warlock 04 - The Warlock Enraged" - читать интересную книгу автора (Stasheff Christopher)

The children turned away from the window, to a foot
and a half of elf, broad-shouldered, brown-skinned, and
pug-nosed, in a forester's tunic and hose, wearing a pointed
cap with a rolled brim and a feather. "Geoffrey," he warned.

The six-year-old pulled himself away from the window
with a look of disgust. "I did but gaze upon them, Robin."

"IndeedЧand I know that thou'rt anxious. Yet I bethink
me that thy parents have need of some bit more of room
than thou'rt wont to accord them."

Cordelia flounced down onto a three-legged stool. "But
Papa was so angered. Puck!"

"As thou hast told me." The elf's mouth tightened at the
comers. "Yet thou dost know withal, that he doth love thee."

"I do not doubt it...." But Cordelia frowned.

Puck sighed and dropped down cross-legged beside her.
"Thou couldst scarce do otherwise, if he did truly become
as enraged as thou didst tell." He turned his head, taking
in all four children with one gaze. "Gentles, do not repre-
hend; if you pardon, he will mend."

They didn't look convinced.

"Else the Puck a liar call!" the elf cried stoutly.

The door opened, and the children leaped to their feet.
They started to back away, but Puck murmured, "Softly,"
and they held their groundЧwarily.

But their father didn't look like an ogre as he came in
the doorЧjust a tall, dark, lean, saturnine man with a
rough-hewn face, no longer young; and he seemed dim next
to the red-haired beauty beside him, who fairly glowed,
making the question of youth irrelevant. Still, if the children
had ever stopped to think about it, they would have remarked
how well their parents looked together.

They did not, of course; they saw only that their father's




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