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"Why, to be sure, haven't I told him? But may not a child die in its own cradle, and the father continue feasting with the lords and the lairds, drinking and swearing, and debauching, when he knows that his honour is discharged, ay, and the blood-bond paid?" "And the body, when she dies "
So fully was this principle recognized that even if any man was charged before his fellow-tribesmen with crime his kinsfolk still remained in fact his sole judges; for it was by their solemn oath of his innocence or his guilt that he had to stand or fall. As the blood-bond gave its first form to English justice, so it gave their first forms to English society and English warfare.
Order and law were thus made to rest in each little group of people upon the blood-bond which knit its families together; every outrage was held to have been done by all who were linked in blood to the doer of it, every crime to have been done against all who were linked in blood to the sufferer from it.
"Has not my brother forgotten his road? What does he mean by coming to this country?" "Nay, it is Ngalyema who has forgotten the blood-bond which exists between us. It is Ngalyema who has forgotten the mountains of goods which I paid him. What words are these of my brother?" "Be warned, Rock-Breaker. Go back before it is too late.
But in hoping to conceal her tragedy Rose Mary had not counted on the light love throws across the dark places that confront the steps of those of our blood-bond, and in an instant Uncle Tucker's torch of comprehension flamed high with the passion of indignation.
It is a strange business; but the world's a strange place, and strange men and women live therein. Meat and drink and honour are better than wisdom. Look to your plate, Aminadab. Oh! I wish I knew less; but I saw what was coming when I saw George Cameron begin to build what he said was to be like a cradle. Did I not recollect what Kalee told me about the blood-bond?
"You are of my father's covenant," he continued, slowly. "The blood-bond is between us," assented the other, heartily enough, and yet knitting his brows as he spoke. "Then if I choose to exact the full obligation of brotherhood, even to sword-service " "It must be paid, and it shall be," said Piers Major, quickly, and still his countenance was troubled. Constans deliberated.
It is this implied engagement that so frequently offends the ingrafted white. And he finds there are two parties to the bargain. Perhaps his Polynesian relative is simple, and conceived the blood-bond literally; perhaps he is shrewd, and himself entered the covenant with a view to gain.
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