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The Sicilian had made blood-offering to the ghost of his father. The priest was instantly on his knees by the corpse; but only to make too sure that it was a corpse. As he was still trying some last hopeless tests he heard for the first time voices from farther up the river, and saw a police boat shoot up to the landing-stage, with constables and other important people, including the excited Paul.
The carle leaned back again, and smiled and shook his head, and spake: "That adventure were speedily proven: death would come of it, my son." "Yea, and how?" said Walter. The carle said: "The big men would take thee, and offer thee up as a blood-offering to that woman, who is their Mawmet. And if ye go all, then shall they do the like with all of you." Said Walter: "Is that sure?"
One of the two must be driven out through the ugly gate of adultery. They must part as enemies and they must sacrifice some third person as a blood-offering on the altar. It is a strange thing that the lamb, which is the symbol of innocence and harmlessness, should have always been the favorite for sacrifice. Charity Coe had happened along at the convenient moment. "Mrs.
So now her will was clear enough to her feet, and they brought her down to the water-side and the long strand, past which the wide water lay windless and gleaming in the hot afternoon. Then lightly she stepped aboard, and awoke the Sending Boat with blood-offering, and it obeyed her, and sped swiftly on the way to the southward.
The whole world is before you; you can seek throughout the universe for this blood-offering demanded by the devil." "Give us gold, brother, and we will seek; without gold, no black ram; without the black ram, no devil!" Fredersdorf disappeared a moment and returned with a well-filled purse, which he handed to his brother.
So gat we aboard our ferry, and did blood-offering to the wight thereof, and so sped merrily and lovingly over the wide lake back on our homeward road. And we said: This hath the dear Birdalone done for us.
Deeply dyed as she is in bloodguiltiness, the wife of Arden is much less of a born criminal than these. To her, at once the agent and the patient of her crime, the victim and the instrument of sacrifice and blood-offering to Venus Libitina, goddess of love and death, to her, even in the deepest pit of her deliberate wickedness, remorse is natural and redemption conceivable.
Indeed David, who stuck close to his side all day, was so sugary sweet with him, and praised and encouraged him so diligently, that Ralph began to have misgivings that all this kindness was but as the flower-garlands wherewith the heathen times men were wont to deck the slaughter-beasts for the blood-offering.
"I cannot say, Augusta," I answered, "but I think that they will offer to surrender you and not myself, since they may doubt them of that fair trial which is promised to me." "Which means," she said, "that, whether I live or die, all these brave men will be sacrificed to you, Olaf, who, after all, must perish with them, as will this Egyptian. Are you prepared to accept that blood-offering, Olaf?
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