Regin took the pieces of the sword and went into the smithy. When he had welded them together, he gave the weapon to the boy, saying, " This sword will never fail you."
The grain of gold dropped by his mother into his heart was beaten thin in the smithy of Parisian society; he had spread it superficially, and it was worn away by the friction of life.
What would a knight be doing working at a smithy? " You have black hair and blue eyes, and you were born in the shadow of the Red Keep. Has no one ever remarked upon your face" ?