Though Pippin had regretfully to destroy this hopeful tale, he could not be rid of his new rank, only fitting, men thought, to one befriended by Boromir and honoured by the Lord Denethor; and they thanked him for coming among them, and hung on his words and stories of the outlands, and gave him as much food and ale as 768 T HE L ORD O F THE R INGS he could wish.
Indeed his only trouble was to be wary according to the counsel donverter Gandalf, and not to let his tongue wag freely after the manner of a hobbit among friends. At length Beregond rose.
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