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There was something so suggestive and dreadful in the expression of her face as she said this, that the stout heart of the old bonde, pulsated more quickly with a sudden vague distrust and dread. She gave him no time to speak, but laying one yellow, claw-like hand on his arm, and raising her voice to a sort of yell, exclaimed triumphantly "Yes, yes! how soon she died! Bravely, bravely done!
"Well!" roared the bonde testily, turning sharply round in his chair, "who calls me?" "I do!" and the tall, emaciated figure of a woman advanced and stood on the threshold, without actually entering the room.
"If any observation is made by the fair 'Marguerite' yonder, we can boldly say we have come to see the bonde."
She liked to be in the fresh air, and was fond of wandering about the hills with her little one in her arms. One day shall I ever forget it! when Thelma was about two and a half years old, I missed them both, and went out to search for them, fearing my wife had lost her way, and knowing that our child could not toddle far without fatigue. I found them" the bonde shuddered-"but how?
But up to this time, she had been, as it were, secluded from all eyes, a few haymakers and fishermen were the only persons of the male sex who had ever been within the precincts of Olaf Gueldmar's dwelling, with the exception of himself, Dyceworthy, who, being armed with a letter of introduction from the actual minister of Bosekop, whose place, he, for the present, filled, had intruded his company frequently and persistently on the bonde and his daughter, though he knew himself to be entirely unwelcome.
He called, he shouted, the frightened animals were utterly beyond control, and dashed madly down the steep road, swinging the sledge from side to side, and entangling themselves more and more with the loose reins, till, irritated beyond endurance, confused and blinded by the flash of the aurora and the dizzy whirl of the swiftly falling snow, they made straight for a steep bank, and before the bonde had time to realize the situation and jump from the sledge crash! down they went with a discordant jangle of bells, their hoofs splitting a thin, sharp shelf of ice as they leaped forward, dragging the light vehicle after them, and twisting it over and over till it was a mere wreck, and throwing out its occupant head foremost against a jagged stone.
The old bonde turned round in his chair with a smile. "Ah, here she is!" he said fondly. "Where hast thou been, my Thelma?" "And Sigurd the Bishop said, 'The old gods are not dead, For the great Thor still reigns, And among the Jarls and Thanes The old witchcraft is spread." LONGFELLOW'S Saga of King Olaf. The girl stood silent, and a faint blush crimsoned her cheeks.
How deliciously those sweet lips pouted, thought Errington, and what an unreasonable and extraordinary grudge he seemed to bear towards the venerable bonde for accepting that kiss with so little apparent emotion! "Hush, father!" she said. "These friends can see too plainly how much you spoil me.
He thought and thought and puzzled himself with probabilities till at last, when he finally rose to enter his dwelling for the night, he muttered half-aloud. "If it must be, it must! And the sooner the better now, I think, for the child's sake." The next morning Sir Philip arrived unusually early, and remained shut up with the bonde, in private conversation for more than an hour.
"Nothing will happen," she rejoined; "unless, indeed, you catch cold by sleeping in a hut all night. Father, you must see that they do not catch cold!" The bonde nodded, and motioned the party forward, Sigurd leading the way, Errington, however, lingered behind on pretense of having forgotten something, and, drawing his betrothed in his arms, kissed her fondly.
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