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Cordeil's Voice (a child's voice, outside):
Father ... Father ... Father ... Are you here?
Merryn, ugly Merryn, let me in ...
I know my father is here ... I want him ... Now ...
Mother, chide Merryn, she is old and slow ...
Hygd (softly):
My little curse. Send her away--away ...
Cordeil's Voice:
Father... O, father, father... I want my father.
Goneril (opening the door a little way):
Hush; hush--you hurt your mother with your voice.
You cannot come in, Cordeil; you must go away:
Your father is not here ...
Cordeil's Voice:
He must be here:
He is not in his chamber or the hall,
He is not in the stable or with Gormflaith:
He promised I should ride with him at dawn
And sit before his saddle and hold his hawk,
And ride with him and ride to the heron-marsh;
He said that he would give me the first heron,
And hang the longest feathers in my hair.
Goneril:
Then you must haste to find him;
He may be riding now ...
Cordeil's Voice:
But Gerda said she saw him enter here.
Goneril:
Indeed, he is not here ...
Cordeil's Voice:
Let me look .
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