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Then in despair the chief, Atituahuei, set a time when, if the gods gave no counsel, he would lead every man of the tribe against the foe, and die while the war-clubs sang. "Atituahuei went with the taua to the giant rock, Meae-Topaiho, the sacred stone shaped like a spear that stood between the lands of the warring peoples, and there he said this vow to the gods. And the people waited.
"You have a wife and children, Donal!" he said; "what would become of them if you fell?" "My sister was turned out in the cold spring," answered Donal, "and died in Glencalvu! It would be better to die together!" "But, Donal, none of yours will die of cold, and I can't let you fight, because the wives and children would all come on my hands, and I should have too many for my meal!
"And would you save me if you could?" "Aye, Steinar. Why not? Surely you must suffer enough with so much blood and evil on your hands." "Yes, I suffer enough, Olaf. So much that I shall be glad to die. But if you are not come to kill me, then it is that you may scourge me with your tongue." "Not so, Steinar.
'What is the news where you come from, my grandson, asked she. 'Great lady, where I come from it is well, and with you it is well. 'Ah, my son, here it is not well at all. If you seek a way to die, or if you have not yet seen death, then is to-day the day for you to know what dying is. 'If I am to know it, I shall know it, replied the gazelle; 'but tell me, who is the lord of this house?
In this case, or in that, it is hard to say what course I should follow, for if this affair should come to the issue I most desire, I must needs fly the place. From that same hour these thoughts and others akin to them possessed my brain, which was only too ready to harbour them, and I felt it would be better to die than to live on in such perplexity.
He was still asleep and she stood looking down at him. In her heart was a great tenderness and a great fear. What if he should die? Memories of their days in the woods swept over her in waves of love. Abruptly she turned to Philip and said quietly: "Philip, until I am your wife you must not touch me again." He looked up, startled, then smiled. "I understand, my dear," he said, "I will not."
We can laugh away their reputations over a game at billiards, and they are too pure and proud to even attempt to defend themselves. We can vilify whatever work they do, and they endure the slander, we can murder them " he paused," Yes, we can murder them, and they die, without so much as leaving a curse behind them!
It is different with you; you are satisfied with me as I am, and you know that I love you. If I never find my uncle again I have no one on earth to care for me but you; but I want no other, for you are my one and only hope, and to live for you and with you is enough. Only you must never leave me or I shall die!
Even infants are treated with "brandy," till we cannot help believing they die of the drink, and would survive if it were put away. Gradually the cruel folly of all this will, we doubt not, dawn upon the general mind. Amputations. These are often performed in cases in which proper treatment on the lines of these papers, would save both life and limb.
"My poor friend," said I, from the bottom of my heart, "I have a word of advice for you, and it is this: I believe that you must die.
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