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Men and women, young and old, all seemed to be possessed of but the one idea to secure as much of the blood-money as possible, and to do their best to bring the hated Irish to the gallows.
But I do not mean to break the laws of the land by granting life to a man who has forfeited it." Then Thorsteinn Dromund came forward, and he, too, offered blood-money on behalf of Grettir, adding many fair words thereto. The jarl asked what moved him to offer blood-money for the man. Thorsteinn said Grettir was his brother. The jarl said he had not known that.
Blood-money in past times, I was assured both by Malays and Sâkai, had always been paid in this manner by the semi-wild tribes of the interior. It was the custom, and Kria's relatives were eager in their prayers to me to accept the proposal.
"Well, that's one to you. I couldn't tell." "What are you going to do with me now?" said the lad haughtily. "Chain me?" "Chain you!" said Waller, laughing, "why, you are not a dog. I am not going to do anything with you. I don't want you." "No; but you want the blood-money, I suppose." "There you go again," cried Waller pettishly. "Chains and blood! I say, do you know what you are talking about?
They were the crude jewels which the Nubian nomads hammer out of shillings or two-franc pieces, I was told that Selim would certainly be hanged, because the little girl's mother refused the tendered blood-money.
The bondi stayed there the night and they had great jokes about the matter. The verses they made were called "Saddle-head verses." In the morning the bondi rode home, parting good friends with Grettir. Grim told Grettir of many things that had been done in Midfjord in the North during his absence, and that no blood-money had been paid for Atli.
There were wild characters abroad who pretended to be in search of rebels, and had succeeded in obtaining blood-money by capturing several. While Tobias Platt took care that the soldiers should be well supplied with food and good liquor, he did not forget the prisoners, especially the young Battiscombes, to whom he carried more delicate food, suited to their present condition.
If I want to be salesman agin in the Jonesville factory I mustn't make 'em mad, and they pay a dretful high rent." "I wouldn't call it rent," sez I, "I'd call it blood-money. I'd run a pirate flag up on the ruff with these words on it, 'Josiah Allen, Deacon." He wuz agitated and sez, "Oh, no, Samantha; I wouldn't do that for the world, I am so well thought on in the M. E. meetin' house."
The subject seemed to require some liquidation, and Lorry finally decided that he himself was the only and legal custodian of the prisoner. As for the reward shucks! He didn't want blood-money. But High Chin would never lay a hand on the hobo if he could help it. Alice Weston, anticipating a real ride into the desert country and the hills, was too excited to sleep.
The blood-money had been paid, and peace had been concluded, but the opportunity was too tempting to be resisted. The Yubbay Tug watercourse begins abruptly, being as broad and deep at the head as it is in the trunk. When Lieutenant Speke visited it, it was dry; there was but a thin growth of trees in it, showing that water does not long remain there.
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