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He was a murderer while he lived, and now I hope that he is a soul in pain forevermore." "I am his son, and you must not " "Then what brought you here? I have hoped you were dead for many a year. If all the Borsons, root and branch, were gone to their father the devil, it would be a pleasure to me.
As he turned he met face to face a middle-aged woman with a basket of turf on her back. "Take care, my lad," she said cheerfully; and her smile inspired David with confidence. "Mother," he said, doffing his cap with instinctive politeness, "mother, I am a stranger, and I want to find my father's people the Borsons. Where do they live?" "My lad, the sea has them.
Therefore he felt sure of his welcome; for, though Paul was but his far-off cousin, they were both Borsons, sprung from the same Norse root, children of the same great ancestor, the wise and brave Norwegian Bor. Lying in the Bay of Lerwick, the sense of security and of nearness to friends gave him what he had long missed a night of deep, dreamless sleep.
And when he entered his home there was the baby girl, and Nanna out of her mind with fever and like to die, and not able to say a word this way or that. And Nicol wanted money, and he went to Matilda Sabiston and he got what he wanted; but what was then said no one knows, for ever since he has hated the Borsons, root and branch, and his own wife and child have borne the weight of it.
"Then, what I have to say is this, and I say it out: go to the Borsons as soon as you can; there is doubtless soul-kin between you and them, and I want no Borson near me, in the body or out of the body." So that afternoon Karen went to live with Paul Borson, and there was great talk about it.
Then, as the women knit and the men sat with their hands clasped upon their heads, Liot stood in their midst and told of the wayfarings and doings of the Borsons, who had been in the Varangian Guard, and sometimes of the sad doom of his fore-elder Gisli, who had been cursed even before he was born.
Liot was the outcome of the most vivid and masterful form of paganism and the most vital and uncompromising form of Christianity. For nearly eight hundred years the Borsons had been christened, but who can deliver a man from his ancestors?
Oh, that he were in your shoes to-day! I would find the strength to slay him, if I died and went to hell for it." "Woman, why dost thou damn thyself while yet there is a hope of mercy?" "Mercy! What have you to do with mercy? One thing rejoices me: it will not be long ere I meet that blessed thrall that cursed all the generations of the Borsons.
As a wife she was sacred in his eyes, and it never entered his mind that any amount of ill treatment could lessen Sinclair's claim upon her. But though far off, she was his cousin; the blood of the Borsons flowed alike through both their hearts; and David, who could feel for all humanity, could feel most of all for Nanna and Vala. Nanna herself had acknowledged this claim.
What has he to do with me?" "He was one of us. And because he was so good and great the thrall's curse fell the harder on him, and was the more regarded hard enough it has been on all the Borsons; and perhaps your father thought it was well you heard not of it.
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