BOOK TEN: AT MANUEL’S TOMB

LXVI Old Age of Niafer 317 LXVII The Women Differ 324 LXVIII Radegonde is Practical 332 LXIX Economics of Jurgen 335 LXX All Ends Perplexedly 349

HEREWITH BEGINS THE HISTORY OF THE BIRTH AND OF THE TRIUMPHING OF THE GREAT LEGEND ABOUT MANUEL THE REDEEMER, WHOM GONFAL REPUDIATED AS BLOWN DUST, AND MIRAMON, AS AN IMPOSTOR, AND WHOM COTH REPUDIATED OUT OF HONEST LOVE: BUT WHOM GUIVRIC ACCEPTED, THROUGH TWO SORTS OF POLICY; WHOM KERIN ACCEPTED AS AN HONORABLE OLD HUMAN FOIBLE, AND NINZIAN, AS A PATHETIC AND SERVICEABLE JOKE; WHOM DONANDER ACCEPTED WHOLE-HEARTEDLY (TO THE ETERNAL JOY OF DONANDER), AND WHO WAS ACCEPTED ALSO BY NIAFER, AND BY JURGEN THE PAWNBROKER, AFTER SOME LITTLE PRIVATE RESERVATIONS: AND HEREINAFTER IS RECORDED THE MANNER OF THE GREAT LEGEND’S ENGULFMENT OF THESE PERSONS.