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"True, Maikar, and we must lose them all, and more if we had them, rather than become slaves." "You are right, captain. We never, never shall be slaves," said Bladud. They say that history repeats itself. Perhaps sentiment does the same.
He gave me to understand that Cormac has been found at least, well, no, not exactly found, but seen and heard of. I'm no better than the rest of you," continued Bladud, with a sarcastic laugh. "It seems as if there were something in the air just now which prevents us all from expressing ourselves plainly."
Into this swamp the pigs rushed headlong, and here they rolled and reveled, tumbling, grunting, and squeaking, and knocking each other head over heels, with evident delight, but to the utter astonishment of Bladud, who was altogether unconscious of the instinct by which the gratified animals had been impelled.
He accordingly introduced his new friend, Bladud, as a candidate for that office; and his mild and sedate manners so well pleased the old man, that he immediately took him into his service. Bladud at first felt the change of his fortunes very keenly, for he had been delicately fed and nurtured, and surrounded by friends, servants, and busy flatterers.
On endeavoring to ascertain the cause of this annoyance, he discovered that one of his most valuable pigs, that had formed a very powerful attachment to Prince Bladud, had followed them on their journey, and was now grunting at their very heels. The herdsman's anger at length broke out in words, and he bitterly upbraided Bladud for having beguiled him into such a wild-goose expedition.
"Ay, let us draw lots," echoed Maikar, "and so shove the matter off our shoulders on to the shoulders of chance." "There is, there can be, no such thing as chance," said Bladud in a soliloquising tone. "However, let it be as you wish. I recognise the justice of two voices overriding one." Lots were drawn accordingly, and the longest fell to the little seaman.
Moved by the gentle beauty of the scene, the prince sank upon the green turf, and bathed his swollen feet in his tears. "Oh!" said the unhappy Bladud, clasping his hands, and mournfully raising his eyes towards the sky, "would that my wanderings might end here! Would that these grateful tears with which I now mourn hope misplaced, and love despised, might flow in peace for ever!"
Grasping her tightly round the waist, he assisted her up the perilous ascent, and finally placed her in safety at the top of the cliff. For a time Bladud felt some anxiety as to the result of the risk he had run, but did not mention his adventure to any one.
"Afraid!" exclaimed Maikar, with a sarcastic laugh. "No, captain, but I'm sorry to part with you, because you've been a good captain to me." "An' I bear no ill-will to you, Bladud, though you did squeeze most of the life out of me once. Farewell, both."
But the leprosy, and its contagious nature, were evils unknown to the herdsmen of Caynsham, or Bladud would never have been able to obtain employment there.
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