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He could not understand why the Higher Powers had permitted this error of justice, and, like many of his daring ancestors, he was ready to fling defiance in the very face of Odin, and demand "Why, O thou drowsy god, nodding over thy wine-cups, why didst thou do this thing?" Utter fearlessness, bodily and spiritual, fearlessness of past, present, or future, life or death, was Gueldmar's creed.
That's my whim! but you're a neat little chap enough, and I dare say you can hold your own!" And his eyes twinkled good-temperedly as he filled himself another glass of his host's fine Burgundy, and drank it off, while Duprez, with a half-plaintive, half-comical shrug of resignation to Gueldmar's verdict on his personal appearance, asked Thelma if she would favor them with a song.
Dyceworthy all was plain and, notwithstanding her deliberate wickedness, she had lived her life without punishment! This was what made Gueldmar's blood burn, and pulses thrill.
"Let not my lord say so!" he murmured appealingly, with the air of a subject entreating favor from a king. "Or, if it must be, let me also travel with thee wherever thou goest!" Olaf Gueldmar's gaze rested on him with a musing tenderness. "'Tis a far journey," he said simply. "And thou art not summoned."
She sat stern and absorbed, with set lips and lowered eyelids at the head of the bed whereon the corpse was now laid out, grimly rigid, with bound-up jaws, and clasped fingers like stiff, dried bones. Her thoughts dwelt gloomily and intently on Gueldmar's words "The Eternal Justice cannot err." Eternal Justice!
Ay, ay! countries and nations are worthless enough; it is only the great names of heroes that endure, to teach the lesson that is never learned sufficiently, namely, that man and man alone is fitted to grasp the prize of immortality." "Ye believe in immortality?" inquired Macfarlane seriously. Gueldmar's keen eyes lighted on him with fiery impetuousness. "Believe in it? I possess it!
Do ye mind what Lovisa Elsland told us?" "Ay, ay," answered the first speaker, "Lovisa knows, Lovisa is the wisest woman we have in these parts that's true! The girl's a witch, for sure!" And they resumed their work in gloomy silence. Not one of them would have willingly labored on Olaf Gueldmar's land, had not the wages he offered been above the usual rate of hire, and times were bad in Norway.
He sprang away like a frightened animal, in haste, and abruptly plunging into the depths of a wood that bordered on Olaf Gueldmar's grounds, was soon lost to sight. Lorimer looked after him in a little perplexity. "I wonder if he ever gets dangerous?" he thought. "A fellow with such queer notions might do some serious harm without meaning it. I'll keep an eye on him!"
He was quite aware of Thelma Gueldmar's exceptional beauty, and he felt pretty certain that no man could look upon her without admiration.
Even the reindeer didst thou say they were injured by their fall last night? I I forget, . . ." "No harm has come to them," said Svensen hastily, seeing that the very effort of thinking was becoming too much for the old man. "They are safe and unhurt. Trouble not about these things!" A strange, unearthly radiance transfigured Gueldmar's visage. "Trouble is departing swiftly from me," he murmured.
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