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So as we rode with no other near us, he said: "What of Hertha, my cousin?" "I know not," I answered. "I have heard nought, nor shall I now till I go back to Bures." "Shall you hold to your betrothal?" "Aye; the ladies think that it is my part to do so." "So you asked them? Is that why fair Sexberga is so dull and restless?"
Beneath a handsome picture of himself he stated his desires, frankly, with evident honesty in all his representations. He told of his holdings in sheep and land, of his money in the bank. A dream of new consequence in this strange land came to Hertha Jacobsen as she read the advertisement, as she studied the features of Swan Carlson, his bold face looking at her from the page.
For if she will not love you when you would win her, you will not hold her bound." "Surely not," I said. "This seems a good plan, if only it may be carried out. But it depends on whether Hertha knows me again." "Or the old nurse, Gunnhild," she answered. "If she lives yet, you must take her into the plan."
The father, should the weather remain good, will make an excursion with us to Lethraborg the day after to-morrow. We will then walk in the beautiful valley of the Hertha, and pass the night at Roeskelde. Those will be two delightful days! What an excellent father you have! But shall we not invite Mr. Thostrup to go with us?
What think you of your meeting with Hertha?" Then I said, being sure that Ailwin understood the puzzle that was in my mind: "Father, I know not what to think. We are bound but now it is likely that we should not know one another if we met; in truth, I think I fear to meet her." "Is there any other maiden?" he asked, still smiling.
For at the great house just across the river below the hills lived the one who should be my wife in the days to come Hertha, daughter of Osgod, the Thane of Wormingford. It was now three years since we had been betrothed with all solemnity in our church, and that had seemed but fit and right, for we were two children who had played together since we could run hand in hand.
Contempt rose in him, and deepened as he thought of the mink-faced youth carrying his deceptive poison into the wild Norseman's camp. But insane as she was, racked by the lonesomeness to be away from that unkindly land, Hertha Carlson remained woman enough to set a barrier up that Reid, sneak that he was, could not cross. What a condition she had made, indeed!
Among the goddesses who, in the form of White Women, were long believed to exercise an influence for good or ill on human affairs, Hertha and Frigga play the most conspicuous parts, and figure in many wild legends; proving how strong was the hold which the creed of their ancestors had on the minds of the Germans long after its idols had been broken and its shrines destroyed.
Then I was glad that the danger that I had learned had been foreseen by her and Ailwin; and as I sat without speaking for a few minutes I felt that now I was free to follow Olaf where he would lead his men to meet the Danes, for Hertha was not here, and her I could follow no longer.
Some writers find Swinburne as great a magician as ever in those poems in which he is free from the obsession of the flesh. But I doubt if Swinburne ever rose to the same great heights in his later work as in the two first series of Poems and Ballads. Those who praise him as a thinker quote Hertha as a masterpiece of philosophy in music, and it was Swinburne's own favourite among his poems.
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