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Only Foster-father in his dungeon was free even from anxiety; for fever had seized on him and he lay unconscious. And in his close prison room, where there was little air and less light, and where Roy racked his brain for stories wherewith to while away the leaden-footed hours, the little Heir-to-Empire lay listless also, yet not ill. Only weary, weary.
Honesty spells ruin in these days." They drove over the railway bridge and up the steep hill out of Guildford seated side by side. Benton had been her "uncle" ever since her childhood days, and a most kind and considerate one he had always proved. Sometimes when at school she did not see him for periods of a year or more and she had no home to go to for holidays. Her foster-father was abroad.
Still the gulf was not impassable, for over it friendly favors were occasionally passed. John Hancock's mother wanted him to be a preacher, but Uncle Thomas would not listen to it the youth must be taught to be a merchant, so he could be the ready helper and then the successor of his foster-father.
"Faithful?" he asked in a low whisper. "What of him?" There was no answer at first; only Foster-father covered his face with his hands. At last he spoke gently. "He was faithful to death. He was going first, as ever, cheering us all with his sayings of Firdoos Gita Makâni.
'But there is only one Daily Delight, said Mrs. Woodward. 'Nonsense! said Charley. 'You don't mean to tell me that my dear old friend and foster-father has fallen foul of me my old teacher and master, if not spiritual pastor; well well well! The ingratitude of the age!
This formed an excellent halting-place, as the men were billeted in the houses, each giving the other mutual protection. We formed our mess in part of the rooms of the headman's house, one Russool of Khusht; he was foster-father to the late Nizam-ul-mulk, but had acknowledged the opposition and joined Sher Afzul.
Sakuntala requests the king to wait till her foster-father Kanwa, who had gone out on a pilgrimage, would come back and give his consent. But the king, becoming importunate, she at last gives her consent. They are married according to the gandharva form, on the condition that the issue of the marriage should occupy the throne of Hastinapur.
At length, however, one day, when those who had gone abroad returned, one of their number was missing, and when the roll was called it was found that it was Tyrker the German who had strayed. Thereat Leif was sorely troubled, for he loved his foster-father dearly.
They divided the animals, so that each of them had a lion, a bear, a wolf, a fox, and a hare, then they took leave of each other, promised to love each other like brothers till their death, and stuck the knife which their foster-father had given them, into a tree, after which one went east, and the other went west.
Ondott's wife Signy carried off all their loose property that same night to a ship and escaped with her sons Asmund and Asgrim to her father Sighvat. A little later she sent her sons to Hedin, her foster-father in Soknadal, where they remained for a time and then wanted to return to their mother. They left at last, and at Yule-tide came to Ingjald the Trusty at Hvin.
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