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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BenBrown" data-source="post: 5737852" data-attributes="member: 1642">"But do I love her?" Mallaby says, "Had she sent me on an impossible quest to begin with, I would have gone with no thought of danger.  Had she ever told me she was upset, I would have listened.  I could have changed my ways, if not without regret.  But she did none of these things.  This was no quest to prove my love she sent me on.  This was to dispose of me.  Could I ever love someone who simply wished me dead?"Mallaby brightens at this."Yes," he says, "Thank you, my friend, for reminding me that my lady Elena Terconis"--he speaks the name now with a hint of scorn--"is not my only chance at love.  If she does not love me, then my search must continue, and all women are not like her.  Ismene, since you mention her, would not send me off into the wilderness to get rid of me.  She'd stab me herself, which I suppose is a comfort."  He stops for a second, as if considering what he has just said."Yes!" he begins again, "I will love again!""No, no.  I must put this behind me.  Besides, he never leaves his home without armed guards.  Assaulting him in the middle of the streets of Daunton would be madness, and I, for one, will not stoop to hiring an assassin, although no doubt he would.   He may be a cad who does not even honor the history of his own house, but he is no longer my concern.  I must put this behind me, for it is said that the best revenge is living well."Mallaby leaps to his feet."We must go forward!" he shouts.  "My friends, I thank you all.  Let us prepare for our return journey.""By the way," he says to Jarro quietly, "Do you really think that Ismene would think of a man like me?"</blockquote>

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