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Henley that Berserker of the pen sings the sword with a vigour that makes one curious to see him using it, and we all know Mr. Kipling's views on the matter. Then Mr. Bernard Shaw rides a bicycle!
At last she was forced to speak to him. "So! You have made me a laughing-stock to these knights. You have scorned at my gifts. You have said and before these men, too that you need neither helm nor hauberk. Give me them back, then, Berserker as you are, and go sleep off your wine." "That will I," laughed Hereward boisterously. "You are tipsy," said she, "and do not know what you say."
In all such and a hundred similar legends, easy to quote, we see the notion of strength, brute force, muscular power, was that deemed most appropriate to divinity, and that which he who would be godlike must most sedulously seek. When filled with the god, the votary felt a surpassing vigor. The Berserker fury was found in the wilds of America and Africa, as well as among the Fiords.
While we were still engaged in dressing the guards rushed in, some with fixed bayonets, others with them gripped short, as with daggers. The leader wore a button, the insignia of non-commissioned rank. He gave a berserker roar of rage and charged furiously at an inoffensive Russian and stabbed the poor fellow in the neck; while his victim lay back in pleading terror, with outstretched arms.
Since she had been awakened, the memory of his hot breath in her face, of his clumsy fevered embraces was a torment to her; for always in contrast there were the fresh clean-shaven cheeks and chin of a young Berserker with honest, wondering blue eyes, the curly head of a child, and body and limbs like a young lean stag. Orlando's touch was never either clammy or fevered.
"What d'you think of her?" asked Boy, unable to disguise her keenness. "You've bought two," said the mother slowly. "D'you think so?" cried the girl. "Sure," muttered the old man. "One thing, if they claim her, they can't claim her foal, too." He grunted in his wife's ear: "Chap said she's in foal to Berserker. Likely tale, ain't it?
To "Auntie" June he owed that flowering, for no sooner was he a little lame duck than she came rushing down from London, bringing with her the books which had nurtured her own Berserker spirit, born in the noted year of 1869. Aged, and of many colours, they were stored with the most formidable happenings.
It is the bounding of the Berserker blood in us, the murmuring echo of the old death-song of Regnar Lodbrog, as he lay amid vipers in his dungeon: "What is the fate of a brave man, but to fall amid the foremost? He who is never wounded has a weary lot." This makes the fascination of war, which is in itself, of course, brutal and disgusting. Dr.
Was it possible that she had chosen this way of striking two blows, by one of which she could win her Italian, and by the other of which she could get rid of himself, her husband? Such had been his conjecture during the fury of the fight, and the thought had roused him up to his Berserker madness; but now, as it recurred again, he saw other things to shake his full belief.
With a snarl he leaped on it, smashed his knuckles against its face, swore horribly while he danced with pain, kicked it with his heavy sea-boots, was more horribly profane as he hopped about with an aching toe in the clutch of both hands, and at last picked up a good-sized hunk of ledge and went at the smiling face with Berserker rage.
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