“Hazel: Lord Frith, I know you've looked after us well, and it's wrong...”

Hazel

Lord Frith, I know you've looked after us well, and it's wrong to ask even more of you. But my people are in terrible danger, and so I would like to make a bargain with you. My life in return for theirs.

Frith

There is not a day or night when a mother doe does not offer her life for her kittens, or an honest captain of Owsla his life for his chief's. But there is no bargain. What is, is what must be.

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Hazel John Hurt More Hazel quotes →

Narrator/Frith Michael Hordern More Frith quotes →

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