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And when the old carle saw the guests, he fixed his eyes on Thiodolf, and presently came up and stood before him; and Thiodolf looked on the old man, and greeted him kindly and smiled on him; but the carle spake not till he had looked on him a while; and at last he fell a-trembling, and reached his hands out to Thiodolf's bare head, and handled his curls and caressed them, as a mother does with her son, even if he be a grizzled- haired man, when there is none by: and at last he said: "How dear is the head of the mighty, and the apple of the tree That blooms with the life of the people which is and yet shall be!
Then she sat by him till the most part of the night was past, when she said to herself, "It is time to profit by the occasion." So she unsheathed the dagger and drawing near to Kanmakan, was about to slaughter him, when, behold, in came his mother. When Bakoun saw her, she rose to meet her, and fear got hold on her and she fell a-trembling, as if she had the ague.
Well, when they let us out, the lads were all a-trembling too; for my brother's face, they said, was like the destroying angel; and I was somewhat queer myself, and I was astonished too; for he was kind-hearted, was my brother, and would not hurt a fly's body; much less damn his soul; and, after all, the poor soldiers were not to blame; and 'twas a queer cursing, I thought too, to be done like that; but maybe 'twas a new papal method.
Now from the dim figure before me broke a sound that was neither scream nor laughter yet something of both. I saw wild hands upcast to the gloom above, a shrunken, pallid face, the gleam of snow-white hair. "Oh, God of mercies oh, God of Justice at last, oh, God at last!" Stooping, I dragged him to the light and found myself suddenly a-trembling so violently that he shook in my gripe.
"I can tell you nothing yet," said Mr Frewen, as I thought, evasively. "He he is not dead?" I gasped; and I fell a-trembling with horror at the idea of one whom I had known vigorous and strong so short a time before, lying there at my feet, robbed of the power of making any reparation for the crime he had so weakly committed, and with no chance for repentance. "I I say, he is not dead, is he?"
Well, she WAS in a tearing way just a-trembling all over, she was so mad. But she counted and counted till she got that addled she'd start to count in the basket for a spoon sometimes; and so, three times they come out right, and three times they come out wrong.
Then she came to me, and sat down at my feet penitently, just as she used to do when she was a child, and asked what she had done to anger me; and then, Heaven forgive me! I told her all, and asked her if she could say with her lips the words she had written, and she nestled in my arms all a-trembling like a bird, and said them over and over again.
But, all at once, she was calm again, and full of self-reproaches, calling herself "weak," and "foolish," and "hysterical" "though, indeed, I was never hysterical before!" and telling me that I must go that it was my duty to go to the "gentle, dying old man" urging me to the door, almost eagerly, till, being out of the cottage, she must needs fall a-trembling once more, and wind her arms about my neck, with a great sob.
Then the older man's hand fell a-trembling in his, and did not release him, but rather clung to him as if he had had a shock. "Come over here and sit beside me a moment, young man I I've I'm not feeling as strong as I look. I I've a thing to tell you. Sit down sit down. We are alone? Yes. Every one's gone to the trial. I'm on here from the West myself to attend it." "The trial! What trial?"
Suddenly she turned and espying me, started and fell a-trembling, even as I. "Martin," said she below her breath. "Oh, Martin!" "Damaris!" I muttered. "Beloved !" Now at this she gave a little gasp and turned to gaze away across the placid waters, and I saw her slender hands clasp and wring each other. "Have you no word of greeting for me?" "I rejoice to to see you well again, Martin!"
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