"Oh, my son, may Teutates hear you! We shall tender our hospitality to the rider. His dress tells he is a stranger. What beautiful stories will he not be able to tell us of his country and his travels!"
"May the divine Ogmi, whose words bind men in golden chains, be propitious to us, father! It is long since any strange story-teller has sat at our hearth."
"Besides, we have had no news of what is going on elsewhere in Gaul."
"Unfortunately so!"
"Oh, my son, if I were all-powerful as Hesus, I would have a new story-teller every evening at supper."
"I would send men traveling everywhere, and have them return and tell their adventures."
"And if I had the power of Hesus, what wonderful adventures would I not provide for my travelers so as to increase the interest in their stories on their return."
"Father, the rider is coming close to us!"
"Yes, he reins in because the road is here narrow, and we bar his passage with our chariot. Come, Guilhern, the moment is favorable; the passenger must have lost his way; let us offer him hospitality for to-night. We shall then keep him to-morrow, and perhaps several other days. We shall have done him a good turn, and he will give us the news from Gaul and of the other countries that he has visited."
"Besides, it will be a great joy to my sister Hena who is to come home to-morrow for the feast of her birthday."