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Then all pain and weariness fell away from him, and he rose up, a god, beautiful with immortality. And as he did there came rushing over the Rainbow Bridge a great company the band of fellow travellers. But all were too late to win the double boon. Ving had won to it through the danger and suffering of the dark river." The rainbow had faded out, and the darkness of the October dusk was falling.
When Master Tweeler secured his tarts, Sir Griffin blessed the meal with a hearty "damn!" He did not care for Master Tweeler's nightly stomach aches, but their rooms adjoined. When "Ur r ving" reached unmolested for his fourth, Sir Griffin rose violently, and muttering, "Change me room, begad!" waddled down to the door, glaring aggressively at the occupants of the various tables.
"Oh, he died of drinking raspberry shrub," he said.... "Dee-dong peteet du ving de Bourgogne," he shouted towards the waitress in his nasal French. Then he added: "Le Guy is coming in a minute, I just met him." The restaurant was gradually filling up with men and women of very various costumes, with a good sprinkling of Americans in uniform and out.
"'Thou mockest me, muttered Ving sullenly. 'No mortal could cross that flood. Oh, Master, he prayed, turning beseechingly to Odin, 'thou didst promise to me eternal life as to the others. Wilt thou not keep that promise? Command the Warder to let me pass. He must obey thee.
But only to that one who shall drink of it first shall be permitted to walk at Odin's right hand forever. "Then the company passed through in great haste, all fired with a desire to be the first to drink of the fountain and win so marvellous a boon. Last of all came Ving.
"You haven't very much chance of going there. But, crimpy! wouldn't it be great if Uncle Dick did take us?" "Remember our school duties, children," drawled Louise. "'Still H E ving, still pursuing. We must not cry for the moon." Thus, with a great deal of laughter and good-natured chatter, the cavalcade trotted on and came finally to what Louise and Bobby said was the entrance to Bolter's Farm.
He had lingered behind to pluck a thorn from the foot of a beggar child he had met on the highway, and he had not heard the Warder's words. But when, eager, joyous, radiant, he set his foot on the rainbow, the stern, sorrowful Warder took him by the arm and drew him back. "'Ving, strong, noble, and valiant, he said, 'Rainbow Bridge is not for thee. "Very dark grew Ving's face.
And vhile I had the inspiration I wrote the leader also in the Museum it is here oh, vairy beautiful! Listen to the first sentence. 'The Angel of Death has passed again over Judaea; he has flown off vith our visest and our best, but the black shadow of his ving vill long rest upon the House of Israel. And the end is vordy of the beginning.
She was as fair and delicate as a young birch tree in spring among the dark old pines and firs, and Ving loved her with all his heart. His soul thrilled with rapture at the thought that he and she together should drink from the fountain of immortality, as Odin had promised, and be one thereafter in eternal youth. "At last they came to the very place where the rainbow touched the earth.
"But Odin stood silent, with his face turned from his beloved, and Ving's heart was filled with unspeakable bitterness and despair. "'Thou mayest return to earth if thou fearest to essay the flood, said the Warder. "'Nay, said Ving wildly, 'earthly life without Alin is more dreadful than the death which awaits me in yon dark river. "And he plunged fiercely in.
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