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And if they are asked why, they answer: 'There are three great evils in our district! I have come to ask you to do away with two of them, as to the third, perhaps I had better remain silent. And this is the reason I weep before your door." "Well, what are these evils?" answered Dschou Tschu. "Speak freely, and tell me openly all that you know!"
"Do they waken folk in your country to know whether they are asleep or no?" said the boy, in a peevish tone. "No, my young sir," answered Nigel; "but when they weep in the manner you do in your sleep, they awaken them to see what ails them." "It signifies little to any one what ails me," said the boy.
For the milk with which I nourished thee, thou hast given me tears. For the kiss with which I kissed thee, thou hast given me bitter pangs of heart. For the grief and labour which I have suffered, thou hast laid on me cruel stripes." And she spoke so much that she made us all weep.
Mellen strained her to his heart, and showered kisses down upon her cold face, kisses, so warm from the heart, that her cheeks kindled into scarlet under them, and she began to weep those gentle tears that drop from a loving heart like dew from a flower.
How the subject came up has passed my memory, but suddenly he rushed out of the room and brought back a handful of little medals. "Look," he said, "each medal represents a human life, a head. We have these given us for every head we bring back in war. Do you think I am proud of them, and there are more than fifty? No, I weep when I see them.
Weak in character, with more heart than intellect, she knew only how to love and to weep. Her husband was a god and her sons were his angels, so he, knowing to what point he was loved and feared, conducted himself like all false gods: daily he became more cruel, more inhuman, more wilful.
Ah! you do not believe me now; you shake your heads and smile; yet a day will dawn, it may be after many incarnations, when you shall bow them in the dust and weep, saying to me, 'Brother Kou-en, yours were the words of wisdom, ours the deeds of foolishness;" and with a deep sigh the old man turned and left us.
But in a shrill voice she cried: "With dry tears will Thok weep for Balder. Let Hela keep her prey." And as she fled, with harsh laughter, to the cave's depth, Hermod knew that it was Loki who had this second time stolen life from Balder.
So Clement made his obeisance and went his ways. But the Queen bade Ralph sit before her, and tell her of his griefs, and she looked so kindly and friendly upon him that the heart melted within him, and he might say no word, for the tears that brake out from him, and he wept before her; while she looked on him, the colour coming and going in her face, and her lips trembling, and let him weep on.
She shrank from him; he was not pleased but he purred amiably: "Mademoiselle is profoundly unhappy. Under such circumstances one says things that are unmerited, is it not? If anyone is to blame, it is my wretched country, which cannot settle its political affairs without bloodshed. Ah, mademoiselle, I weep with you, and tender you my most respectful homage."
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