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holds my lands to one of your properties. He is a good man. You will lose nothing by having him. Then I can live in my own keep, and you will be free of me."
"Oh, Simon," Alinor sighed, "can you never live within the day? Must you always look long years ahead? Who knows if you will ever be too old for me? I could die nine moons from now in childbed. How often in these past years have you felt the cold hand of death brush you? We could drown together on the voyage home. Beloved, my grandfather had three wives. He was older than all, and he outlived them all. The last, my grandmother, was some twenty years younger than he. In the end, I think he died more of her death than of any effect of his own age."

 
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