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Their duty was to see who came in, or went out; to lock up, and open the different wards; to fetter such prisoners as were ordered to be placed in irons; to distribute the allowances of provision; and to maintain some show of decorum; for which latter purpose they were allowed to carry whips and truncheons.
But what to do with the ass! Friend Doctor, do you truly value the life of the creatur'?" "He is an ancient and faithful servant," returned the disconsolate Obed, "and with pain should I see him come to any harm. Fetter his lower limbs, and leave him to repose in this bed of herbage. I will engage he shall be found where he is left, in the morning." "And the Siouxes?
"And you intend to stay?" "Oh, I'm at least wise enough not to fetter myself with intentions," answered John. She looked about, calculating, estimating. "I suppose it costs you the very eyes of your head?" she asked. John giggled. "Guess what it costs I give it to you in a thousand." She continued her survey, brought it to a period. "A billion a week," she said, with finality. John exulted.
Skirnir went down to Svartheim with the message from Asgard. The Dwarf Chief swelled with pride to think that it was left to them to make the fetter that would bind Fenrir. "We Dwarfs can make a fetter that will bind the Wolf," he said. "Out of six things we will make it." "What are these six things?" Skirnir asked.
Nothing now remains but that I should give you up to God. You that are of the same opinion follow me." As some wicked joker had hidden his hat, he was not able to leave the room with the dignity befitting the occasion; but eighteen supporters answered to his call; and the face of John Wesley was seen in the Fetter Lane Society no more.
But all the time he was oppressed by the consciousness that this carefulness of diction was making a booby of him, preventing him from expressing what he had in him. Also, his love of freedom chafed against the restriction in much the same way his neck chafed against the starched fetter of a collar. Besides, he was confident that he could not keep it up.
In scorn Fenrir looked down on the fetter Skirnir dragged. In scorn he stood still allowing Laeding to be placed upon him. Then, with an effort that was the least part of his strength, he stretched himself and broke the chain in two. The Gods were dismayed. But they took more iron, and with greater fires and mightier hammer blows they forged another fetter.
These were creatures as incomplete as the laws which governed them; they were considered by some as a being midway between man and the lower animals, as a malignant beast which the laws could not too closely fetter, and which nature had destined, with so many other things, to serve the pleasure of men; while others held woman to be an angel in exile, a source of happiness and love, the only creature who responded to the highest feelings of man, while her miseries were to be recompensed by the idolatry of every heart.
I should have known it, and left you to the safe and simple joys of girlhood. Forgive me that I have kept you a prisoner so long; take off the fetter I put on, and go, Sylvia." "No, do not put me from you yet; do not think that I can hurt you so, and then be glad to leave you suffering alone.
He never knew how he did that; but he swung the sword on the one side, and clove the appearance through the midst; and it cried out aloud with the voice of his mother; and fell to the ground; and with the fall of it, the house was gone from over Jack's head, and he stood alone in the woods, and the gyve was loosened from his leg. "Well," said he, "the enchanter is now dead, and the fetter gone."
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