His father, King Reitheoir of Dyfed, told Bedivere that God kept his hand because Bedivere was too precious and He couldn’t bear to let all of him go. A priest told him that the left hand was the one that did evil, and God had withheld it from Bedivere’s body as a sign that Bedivere would do only good. Privately Bedivere thought that if God thought he was so precious He had a pretty funny way of showing it, and furthermore he was confident that he could get up to any amount of evil with his right hand if he put his mind to it. But he didn’t brood about it. Until such time as God saw fit to
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