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Also by Katherine Kurtz
The Deryni Novels
The Chronicles of the Deryni
Deryni Rising
Deryni Checkmate
High Deryni
The Legends of Camber of Culdi
Camber of Culdi
Saint Camber
Camber the Heretic
The Histories of King Kelson
The Bishop's Heir
The King's Justice
The Quest for Saint Camber
The Heirs of Saint Camber
The Harrowing of Gwynedd
King Javan's Year
The Bastard Prince
The Childe Morgan Trilogy
In the King's Service
Childe Morgan
The King's Deryni
Other novels
King Kelson's Bride
Saint Camber
The Legends of Camber of Culdi, Volume Two
Katherine Kurtz
This one is for
JOHN H. KNOBLOCK
who started me on my intellectual love affair
with the medieval world and its church,
and for all the other men and women
of whatever faith
who helped to turn that cerebral fascination
into an affair of the heart,
whether or not they were aware of it.
In our own ways, we all feed our sheep.
C
ONTENTS
I By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.
III For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces.
IV For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
V Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
VI I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
VII And them shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
VIII Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.
XII I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
XIV I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.
XV I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.
XXI And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
XXII For thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard.
XXIII I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.
XXV How is he numbered among the children of God, and his lot is among the saints!
Appendix I: Index of Characters
P
ROLOGUE
Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them
.
âIsaiah 42:9
It was the spring of 905, half a year since the crowning of Cinhil Haldane at Valoret; half a year since the last Deryni king, Imre of Festil, had been deposed and defeated by Cinhil's new-won magic; since Imre's sister Ariella, heavy with his child, had fled the halls of Valoret to seek sanctuary with the hosts of Torenth to the east.
The Deryni Lord Camber MacRorie had been the hero of that dayâCamber and his children: Joram and Evaine and Rhysâand Alister Cullen, proud Vicar General of the Order of Saint Michael, which had made the physical fact of the Restoration possible.
Now the Haldane throne was steadying, Cinhil's queen safely delivered of twin sons to replace the one murdered by Imre's agent before Cinhil's emergence. King Cinhil, though reluctant still to set aside his former monkish life, was perhaps beginning to understand his role as monarch.