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The weakness then of infant limbs, not its will, is its innocence. Myself have seen and known even a baby envious; it could not speak, yet it turned pale and looked bitterly on its foster-brother. Who knows not this? Mothers and nurses tell you that they allay these things by I know not what remedies.
"No, my dear foster-brother," said the Nevile, "I do not yet comprehend the choice you have made. You were reared and brought up with such careful book-lere, not only to read and to write the which, save the mark!
In the guidebooks we read that it was once a place of strength and importance, and that Hugh de Lacy the same bold knight 'who had won all Ireland for the English from the Shannon to the sea' had taken this castle from a native chieftain called Neal O'Caharney, whose family he had slain, all save one; and then it adds: 'Sir Hugh came one day, with three Englishmen, that he might show them the castle, when there came to him a youth of the men of Meath a certain Gilla Naher O'Mahey, foster-brother of O'Caharney himself with his battle-axe concealed beneath his cloak, and while De Lacy was reading the petition he gave him, he dealt him such a blow that his head flew off many yards away, both head and body being afterwards buried in the ditch of the castle.
For to you, and to my lady and mother, I owe more than to anyone in the world, for she loved me and treated me as her son. 'Sir, replied Sir Ector, I only ask that you will make your foster-brother, Sir Kay, Seneschal of all your lands. 'That I will readily, answered Arthur, 'and while he and I live no other shall fill that office.
"May thy trial in these last be over," answered Alwyn; "but the humble must console their state by thinking that the great have their trials too; and, as our homely adage hath it, 'That is not always good in the maw which is sweet in the mouth. Thou seest much of my gentle foster-brother, Mistress Sibyll?"
So on New Year's Day, the Knights, as their custom was, went to hear service in the Great Church, and after it was over they met in the field to make ready for the tourney. Among them was a brave Knight called Sir Ector, who brought with him Sir Kay, his son, and Arthur, Kay's foster-brother.
Little wonder then that Estein should feel his heart beat high as he stood by the great tiller. That night, long after the sun was set, he still sat on deck watching the stars. By-and-by his foster-brother Helgi came up to him, wrapped in a long sea cloak, and humming softly to himself. "The night is fair, Estein. If Thor is kind, and this wind speeds us, we shall soon reach England."
And you, foster-brother, if my fame is important to you, do you betake yourself to those dumpish oafs around the fires and try, by any means whatever, to remedy their faint-heartedness. Ask them if they want the host across the river to think them turned into a herd of weeping bondwomen. Ask them if they think thus to show honor to their King.
The slave whose duty it was to heat the baths had reserved a portion of the infected garments that had been given to him to burn; his son had helped him, and Katharina's nurse, the mother of her foster-brother Anubis, had come into direct contact with her immediately after her return from the soothsayer's and from the bishop's. All three had caught the disease.
This person the serjeant had procured that morning, and had, by leave of his wife, given him a bond of indemnification for the purpose. The colonel did not seem so elated with this news as Atkinson expected. On the contrary, instead of making a direct answer to what Atkinson said, the colonel began thus: "I think, serjeant, Mr. Booth hath told me that you was foster-brother to his lady.
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