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"I never paid tribute to King Belé, though he was an old friend of mine," said the jarl, as Frithiof ended his speech, "nor will I to his sons. If they want aught of me, let them come and take it." "It was by no choice of my own that I came upon such an errand," returned Frithiof, "and I shall be well content to carry back your answer."
Did you slay Nicol, as your father slew Bele Trenby, by water? or did you poison him with drugs? or is your hand red with his life-blood? And now, before the fish have had time to pick his bones, you are wooing his wife." "Will you let Nanna alone? She is ill." "Ill? Babble! Look at her rosy cheeks! She has been listening to your love-words. Who sent you to the Sea Rover?
He compelled himself to see over again the drowning of Bele that irreparable wrong which had ruined all his happiness; he compelled himself to stand once more by Karen's coffin, and listen to his own voice calling God to witness his innocence; he compelled himself to admit that he had thought God had forgotten his sin of seven years ago.
"That is vain babble, Bele; and I would leave Liot alone. He has more shapes than one, and he is ill to anger in any of them." Bele was not averse to be so counseled. In spite of his bravado and risky ventures, he was no more a brave man than a dishonorable or dishonest man ever is.
"At length one of those who walked with me, and whom I took to be the leader of the band, proposed that as I had had no rest and seemed to be tired, we should halt and rest by the side of a small stream we were then passing. I perceived at once that we had arrived at the bele, or place of execution. The Phansigars always send a man on to choose the bele carefully beforehand.
"There is no cause to call my father what neither God nor man has called him." "Cause enough! I know that right well." "Then it is only right you give proof of such assertions. Say what you mean and be done with it." "Ah! you are getting angry at last. Your father would have been spitting fire before this. But it was not with fire he slew Bele Trenby no, indeed; it was with water.
Dark was the countenance of Helgi, and there was blood upon his hands, for he had just been assisting at the midday sacrifice. But the face of Halfdan was bright as the early morning, and he was as light and joyous as his brother was dark and gloomy. Frithiof also came, for the thane Thorsten Vikingsson desired to see him, that he too might bless his son when King Belé blessed the royal princes.
Perhaps he had shown too great partiality to his father's memory in the matter of Bele Trenby. Well, then, he must bear the consequences; for even at this hour he could not make up his mind to blame his father more than his father had blamed himself.
Then David stood up. All fear had gone, he knew not where. He looked even taller than his wont. And the light of God's presence was so close to him that his large, fair face really had a kind of luminosity. "Minister," he answered with a solemn confidence, "minister and friends, my father at his death-hour expressly said that he did not slay Bele Trenby.
Liot ventured to tell Him all that he had to suffer from Bele the lies that he could not refute, the insolences he could not return, his restricted intercourse with Karen, and the loss of that frank fellowship with such of his townsmen as had business reasons for not quarreling with Bele. So matters went on, and the feeling grew no better, but worse, between the men.
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