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Only at Karen her power stopped short; neither promises nor threats would induce the girl to accept Bele as her lover; and Matilda, accustomed to drive her will through the teeth of every one, was angry morning, noon, and night with her disobedient niece.
The handsome boy was the son of the thane Thorsten Vikingsson; the little girl, with dove-like eyes and silken tresses, was the daughter of good King Belé. Together the little ones played through the long pleasant days in their foster-father's garden, or wandered through the woods, or climbed the hills that sheltered them from the northern winds.
"'I can't get out I can't get out! cried the starling," which isn't in any prayer book of course, save the prayer book of a woman's imprisoned heart. She was in the kitchen garden one morning just beside the gatehouse showing Bele for the thousandth time how to trench the peas without burying them, when a crumpled old man in a rough cap with a basket under his arm, limped through the gate.
As I have told you, Liot wished to marry my niece Karen, that he might heir my property. He had every reason to get Bele out of his way, and he did it. Ask his son." "I will." With these words he became silent, and Matilda saw that there was an end of the conversation for that time.
"The dream came from your own thoughts." "It came from Bele's angel. The next day yes, and many times afterward I took to the spot the dog that loved Bele, and the creature whined and crouched to his specter. Men are poor, sightless creatures; animals see spirits where we are blind as bats." "Are these your proofs? Why do people suffer you to say such things?"
Then Bele flew into a passion and cried out with an oath: "You are a cursed fellow, Liot Borson, and in the devil's own temper; I will stay no longer with you." He stepped forward as he spoke, and instantly a cry, shrill with mortal terror, rang across the moor from sea to sea.
Felicia's absurd whine for the timorous lover always made Bele snort from his corner, "But boldly cry 'Widow, thou MUST " Ah, the deep contralto of that boyish voice of hers roundly mouthing the pompous swain's wooing!
And if Bele had been content to be silent and tread slowly in my father's steps he had reached his ship in safety. But he must talk and he must hurry; and the first was not wanted, and the second was dangerous. And after a little my father's shoe-strings came undone, and he stooped to tie them who wouldn't, where a false step or a fall might be death?
But the postscript begged Margot to tell Bele to stay all he could with Grandy, "If Grandy looks at the chess board tell Bele to put the men on it and shove a man every time Grandy pushes one you must all keep Grandy happy." And the last postscript of all said, "The narcissi are lovely, I have them in my room!" Which was quite truthful. She did have narcissi in her room!
"As you know, kinsman," answered Liot, "I have ever hated Bele, and that with reason. Often I have said it were well if he were hurt, and better if he were dead; but at this time I will say no word, good or bad. If the man lives, I have nothing good to say of him; if he is dead, I have nothing bad to say." "That is wise.
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