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Updated: June 13, 2025
Mighty and beneficent must be the force or the law which could combine the rude elements into such a form of life as this! "Let me live for you and serve you! Though the world has no Balder, may not I have mine? You shall be everything to me! Without you I cannot be; but I want no other God if I have my Balder!" This was another matter!
"Never think of such things, or talk of them! Could you hate anyone, Balder? or kill him if you did?" With that glorious presence so near him, her voice so close to his ear, how could he answer her? His heart awoke, and beat and drove the tingling blood tumultuously forth to the remotest veins. She saw the flush, and caught the passionate brilliancy of his eyes.
"Is this marriage, Balder? to be tied together with flowers?" "One part of marriage. It shows the world that we belong only to each other." "How could they help knowing that, for to whom else could we belong? besides, why should they know?"
Had Manetho taken Balder, for example, Salome might have pursued another and more intelligible course than the one she actually took. She hurried out of the door and caught Manetho by the arm before he was twenty paces on his way. He turned, savage but frightened, setting down the little girl but not letting go her hand.
In fact, had Balder delayed his return another year, he would have found the enchanted castle in possession of the auctioneer; and as to the fate of its inhabitants, one does not like to speculate! Having read the papers, Manetho replaced them, and next pulled out the miniature of Doctor Glyphic. He studied this for a long time.
And so, indeed, he did, a few years later; but not unknown nor uncared for. Balder Helwyse was a philosopher, no doubt; but it was no part of his wisdom to be indifferent to unstrained sympathy. He went on to speak further of his own concerns, a thing he was little used to do.
They were leaning side to side against the bench, along whose edge Balder had stretched an arm to cushion Gnulemah's head. As he turned to look at her, a dash of sunlight was quivering on her clear smooth cheek, and another ventured to nestle warmly below the head of the guardian serpent on her bosom, for Gnulemah and the sun had been lovers long before Balder's appearance.
"If I could believe you understood it, dear old sceptic!" returned Balder, with affectionate irreverence, throwing his arm across his father's broad shoulders. "I say that every soul of right capacity, living for culture, and not afraid of itself, will at last reach that highest point. It is the sublime goal of man, and no human life is complete unless in gaining it. Many fail, but not all.
Once within, Hermod came rapidly into the presence of the queen, and on his knees before her implored her to allow Balder to return to the light and the upper air. "'For Heaven was Balder born, the city of gods And heroes, where they live in light and joy. Thither restore him, for his place is there!" Hela remained unmoved by his pleadings; and what wonder?
But Odin was the most sorrowful of all; for he knew, that, with Balder, the world had lost its most gladsome life. They lifted the body, and carried it down to the sea, where the great ship "Ringhorn," which Balder himself had built, lay ready to be launched. And a great company followed, and stood upon the beach, and bewailed the untimely death of the hero.
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