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Then Tristan asked: "How far is this keep of Carhaix?"

"Sir," said the hermit, "it is but two miles further on this way"

Then Tristan and Gorvenal lay down, for it was evening

In the , when they had slept, and when the hermit had chanted, and had shared his black bread with them, Tristan thanked him and rode hard to Carhaix And as he halted beneath the fast high walls, he saw a little company of men behind the battlements, and he asked if the Duke were there with his son Kaherdin Now Hod was a them; and when he cried "yes," Tristan called up to hi of Lyonesse, and Mark of Cornwall is , and I have coo you your way alone and God reward you, for here within we have no more food; no wheat, or meat, or any stores but only lentils and a little oats re"

But Tristan said "For two years I dwelt in a forest, eating nothing save roots and herbs; yet I found it a good life, so open you the door"

They welcomed hieon keep with all their devices, and froleamed the tents of Duke Riol And when they were down in the castle again he said to Tristan: "Friend, let us go to the hall whereeach other's hands, they cahter sat together weaving gold upon English cloth and singing a weaving song They sang of Doette the fair who sits alone beneath the white-thorn, and round about her blows the wind She waits for Doon, her friend, but he tarries long and does not co And Tristan bowed to the the work his mother did, said: "See, friend Tristan, what a oman is here, and how marvellously she adorns stoles and chasubles for the poor old upon this cloth Of right, good sister, are you called, 'Iseult of the White Hands'"

But Tristan, hearing her naently

And on the hts left the castle and rode to a pinewood near the eneon of Count Riol's food; and from that day, by escapade and ruse they would carry tents and convoys and kill off men, nor ever coan to be brothers in arms, and kept faith and tenderness, as history tells And as they caether, often did Kaherdin praise to his comrade his sister, Iseult of the White Hands, for her simplicity and beauty