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"Well, Prince," said Jurgen, "I am willing to taste any drink once." So Koshchei waved his hand: and there, quick as winking, was the loveliest lady that Jurgen had ever imagined. The Faith of Guenevere Very fair was this woman to look upon, with her shining gray eyes and small smiling lips, a fairer woman might no man boast of having seen.
Jurgen saw that this board was nearly covered with figures which had not yet been added up; and this blackboard seemed to him the most frightful thing he had faced anywhere. Then Koshchei came out of the cave with Jurgen, and Koshchei walked with Jurgen across Amneran Heath, and through Morven, in the late evening.
"Yes, but reflect how remarkable a possession is that pride of yours, and how I wonder at it, and how I envy it in vain, I, who have nothing anywhere to contemplate save my own handiwork. Do you consider, Jurgen, what I would give if I could find, anywhere in this universe of mine, anything which would make me think myself one-half so important as you think Jurgen is!" And Koshchei sighed.
Koshchei, who made all things, seemed properly impressed. Then Steinvor talked of her daughters, of Imperia and Lindamira and Christine: of Imperia's beauty, and of Lindamira's bravery under the mishaps of an unlucky marriage, and of Christine's superlative housekeeping. "Fine women, sir, every one of them, with children of their own! and to me they still seem such babies, bless them!"
But, after all, just what exactly is the point of it? What does it mean?" "It may be that there is no meaning anywhere. Could you face that interpretation, Jurgen?" "No," said Jurgen: "I have faced god and devil, but that I will not face." "No more would I who have so many names face that. You jested with me. So I jest with you. Probably Koshchei jests with all of us.
But, since you ask me, everybody knows that things as they are must be regarded as temporary afflictions, and as trials through which we are righteously condemned to pass, in order to attain to eternal life with our loved ones in Heaven." "Ah, yes," said Koshchei, who made things as they are; "ah, yes, to be sure! and how did you learn of this?"
"To be sure it is," says he, "it is in the broom under the threshold." Thereupon the princess seized the broom and threw it on the fire, but although the broom burned, the deathless Koshchei remained alive; indeed not so much as a hair of him was singed.
But I am glad the affair has been so arranged that You may always now be real to brave and gentle persons who have believed in and have worshipped and have loved You. To have disappointed them would have been unfair: and it is right that before the faith they had in You not even Koshchei who made things as they are was able to be reasonable.
"Where is that?" he asked: and they explained to him as well as they could. "Oh, yes, over that way," Koshchei interrupted. "I remember. Now but what is your name, woman who wish to go to Heaven?" "Steinvor, sir: and if you please I am rather in a hurry to be with my children again. You see, I have not seen any of them for a long while."
"But, man, how strange you are!" said Koshchei, presently; and life flowed back into his eyes, and Jurgen ventured the liberty of breathing. "Inside, I mean. Why, there is hardly anything left. Now rules are rules, of course; but you, who are the remnant of a poet, may depart unhindered whenever you will, and I shall take nothing from you. For really it is necessary to draw the line somewhere."
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