  | Roderick is about to go to the cone-gatherers' hut in the wood, to give them a cake as a peace-offering.
He was afraid that he was going alone, and yet he was glad too. Had Harry been with him, he would have been nigglingly inquisitive as to the exact purpose of this visit to the cone-gatherers' hut, and the explanation that it was a kind of
pilgrimage
would never have satisfied him. When [Harry] had been told about
Sir Galahad
he had appreciated that shining knight's prowess with a sword and also his rescuing of maidens captured by ogres, but he had been sceptical and indifferent about
his quest for the grail of goodness.
As for
Christian in the Pilgrim's Progress
he had scoffed at him as dreary and old-fashioned. These were
Roderick's heroes, and this visit through the silent sunny wood was in their company.
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