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Suddenly there came a crash of branches at his side, a man stepped out of the trees, and before he had time to draw a weapon, the sharp, impatient voice of his guide exclaimed, "Is this all the way you have made? Your foster-brother has escaped, or has by this time been captured, I care not which. I saw him not." "But supposing I were more careful of his safety?"
You saw him, and admitted that he was worth looking at. And that was when he had scarcely recovered from his dangerous wounds, while now The French Knight de Preully, in Paris, with whom my dead foster-brother, until he fell sick " Here he hesitated; an enquiring look from his sweetheart showed that perhaps for excellent reasons he had omitted to tell her about his sojourn in Paris.
Her good husband was a little annoyed at this; he would have liked to keep his wife always to himself, but he did not take exception to the affection which she felt for this young gentleman, as she had told him that he was her foster-brother.
Thoroughly worn out, as soon as he reached home he retired to rest, but sleep he could not. So taking up a book he began to read. A shadow fell across the page. He looked up and saw his foster-brother standing by the bedside. But, oh, how changed! His fair hair clotted with blood; his face pale and drawn, and his garments all gory.
He stood out clearly in the transparent dusk a tall, mail-clad figure, walking with a confident carriage. Estein waited till he was opposite him, and then sprang up, dagger in hand. "Who art thou?" he demanded. The man's hand went straight to his sword, but at the sound of Estein's voice it fell again. "Estein, my foster-brother!" he cried. "Helgi!"
For the head of the child, my foster-brother, was brought to him by the eunuch as he sat in his palace of marble at Alexandria, flushed with Cyprian wine, and played upon the flute before his women. And at his bidding the eunuch lifted up the head by the hair for him to look on. Then he laughed and smote it on the cheek with his sandal, bidding one of the girls crown Pharaoh with flowers.
At last, the foster-brother suggested that the escape of Zelia might have been contrived by an old man, Suliman by name, the prince's former tutor, who was the only one who now ventured to blame him for anything that he did. Cherry sent immediately, and ordered his old friend to be brought to him, loaded heavily with irons.
Tom is in the rough as yet, but he will come out all right. I shall lose him in a year. He is over seventeen and is to study medicine. But what about Lamb?" "I am wicked enough to wish he were really ill. It is only the usual drunken bout, but he is a sort of Frankenstein to the Squire because of that absurd foster-brother feeling. He is still in bed, I presume."
He concluded with a profound bow; and Mary Avenel, gazing from one to the other, and plainly seeing that something was amiss, could only say, "For heaven's sake, what is the meaning of this?" The newly-acquired tact and intelligence of her foster-brother was as yet insufficient to enable him to give an answer.
As Amelia was much disordered with her fright, she did not recollect her foster-brother till he was introduced to her by Booth; but she no sooner knew him than she bestowed a most obliging smile on him; and, calling him by the name of honest Joe, said she was heartily glad to see him in England. "See, my dear," cries Booth, "what preferment your old friend is come to.
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