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So the two brothers set off again and soon reached the side of a hill where some fine deer were grazing. 'Kill one of those deer for your own dinner, said the boy-brother, 'but catch me another alive. I want him. The lion at once sprang towards them with a loud roar, but the deer bounded away, and they were all three soon lost to sight.
At length the darkness thinned; it grew a gray mist; the face of her boy-brother glimmered up through it, like that of Dives in hell-fire to his guardian-angel as he hung lax-winged and faint in the ascending smoke.
He looked thin and old old my boy-brother Jem. I can't forget mother's face when I showed it to her. 'That my little Jem the baby of the old House of Dreams? was all she said. "There was a letter from Faith, too. She is doing V.A.D. work in England and writes hopefully and brightly.
For a long while the lion tossed it up and down gaily, feeling that, however sound asleep the boy-brother might look, he was sure to have one eye open; but gradually he began to edge closer to the opening, and at last gave such a toss that the ball went up high into the air, and he could not see what became of it.
There is a Mother of Sorrows in every womanly heart, to whom the appeal of the stricken is never made in vain. Ardea saw only a boy-brother crying out in his pain, and she dropped on her knees and put her arms around his neck and wept over him in a pure transport of sisterly sympathy. "Indeed and indeed I will help, Tom! And you mustn't let it drive you out into the dark. You poor boy!
The cat waited for a long while, but finding that the lion did not return, went back to the house where they lived. It was quite dark when the lion came home, where his brother was sitting curled up in one corner. 'Did you catch the deer for me? asked the boy-brother, springing up. 'Well, no, replied the man-brother.
The devil has brought it about! he put a knife in my hands once! to-night he brings me face to face with you and my boy-brother and makes you curse and renounce me! Well, so be it! have your will! Henceforth I am really lost my father!"
The cat waited for a long while, but finding that the lion did not return, went back to the house where they lived. It was quite dark when the lion came home, where his brother was sitting curled up in one corner. 'Did you catch the deer for me? asked the boy-brother, springing up. 'Well, no, replied the man-brother.
At length the darkness thinned; it grew a gray mist; the face of her boy-brother glimmered up through it, like that of Dives in hell-fire to his guardian-angel as he hung lax-winged and faint in the ascending smoke.
For a long while the lion tossed it up and down gaily, feeling that, however sound asleep the boy-brother might LOOK, he was sure to have one eye open; but gradually he began to edge closer to the opening, and at last gave such a toss that the ball went up high into the air, and he could not see what became of it.
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