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Maester Luwin urged him to do just that, but Robb would not hear of it. "My lord father would never have sent men off to die while he huddled like a craven behind the walls of Winterfell," he said, all Robb the Lord.
魯溫學士也勸他這么做，可羅柏不肯聽。“父親大人絕不會派別人去送死，自己卻像個膽小鬼似的躲在臨冬城的墻壘之后。”他這么說，完全是羅柏城主的口氣。
Robb seemed half a stranger to Bran now, transformed, a lord in truth, though he had not yet seen his sixteenth name day. Even their father's bannermen seemed to sense it. Many tried to test him, each in his own way. Roose Bolton and Robett Glover both demanded the honor of battle command, the first brusquely, the second with a smile and a jest. Stout, grey-haired Maege Mormont, dressed in mail like a man, told Robb bluntly that he was young enough to be her grandson, and had no business giving her commands ... but as it happened, she had a granddaughter she would be willing to have him marry. Soft-spoken Lord Cerwyn had actually brought his daughter with him, a plump, homely maid of thirty years who sat at her father's left hand and never lifted her eyes from her plate. Jovial Lord Hornwood had no daughters, but he did bring gifts, a horse one day, a haunch of venison the next, a silver-chased hunting horn the day after, and he asked nothing in return... nothing but a certain holdfast taken from his grandfather, and hunting rights north of a certain ridge, and leave to dam the White Knife, if it please the lord.
對布蘭來說，如今的羅柏活像半個陌生人，仿佛真正變成了一方之主，雖然他還不到十六歲。父親的封臣們注意到他的狀況，許多人試圖用自己的方式來考驗他：盧斯·波頓口氣莽撞地要求讓他領軍；羅貝特·葛洛佛雖是說說笑笑，但有著相同的目的；體格粗壯，頭發灰白，像男人全身著盔甲的梅姬·莫爾蒙毫不客氣地說羅柏的年紀足以當她孫子，沒資格對她頤指氣使……不過呢，她倒剛巧有個孫女兒可以嫁給他；講話輕聲細語的賽文伯爵直接把女兒給帶來了，她的相貌平庸，胖嘟嘟的，年約三十，坐在她父親左手，自始至終沒將視線從餐盤里抬起過；友善的霍伍德伯爵沒有女兒，但他帶了很多禮物，今天送匹馬，明天送一大塊鹿肉，隔天又送一個漂亮的銀邊獵號，而且完全不要回報……除了希求從他祖父手中奪走的一小塊地，某個山脊北部的狩獵權，以及在白刃河修筑水壩的權利等等。當然，如果城主大人高興的話。
