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"Harold," answered Haco, with more than his usual tone of sombre sadness, "I desire now to be thy shield-bearer, for thou must use thine axe with both hands while the day lasts, and thy shield is useless. Wherefore thou strike, and I will shield thee." "Thou lovest me, then, son of Sweyn; I have sometimes doubted it."
Lovest thou Me more than these that never discredited their boasting so shamefully? So, dear brethren! here we have Jesus Christ, in His treatment of this penitent and half-restored soul, forcing a man, with merciful compulsion, to look steadfastly and long at his past sin, and to retrace step by step, shameful stage by shameful stage, the road by which he had departed so far.
At last, whether it was her gaze, or the perfume in her hair, or what I do not know, but I almost felt as though I was being mesmerized. At last she roused herself. "Incubu," she said, "lovest thou power?" 'I replied that I supposed all men loved power of one sort or another. "Thou shalt have it," she said. "Lovest thou wealth?" 'I said I liked wealth for what it brought.
"Hast thou questions to ask of the statue of the Mother yonder that thou lovest the place so much? They say it speaks, telling of the future to those who dare to kneel beside it uncompanioned from night till dawn. Yet I have often done so, but to me it has never spoken, though none long to learn the future more."
'I came, O minstrel, to rest in thine arms and to be thy companion and wife for ever, the fish replied; 'to keep thy home in order and to do whatever thou pleased. For I am not a fish; I am no salmon of the Northern Seas, but Youkahainen's youngest sister. I am the one thou wert fishing for Aino, whom thou lovest. Once thou wert wise, but now art foolish, cruel.
"It may be so with truth, for verily love is the arch-devil's birth." The king rose, and strode his chamber with a quick step; at last pausing, "Hastings," he said, "so thou lovest the multiplier's pretty daughter? She has just left me. Art thou jealous?" "Happily your Highness sees no beauty in looks that have the gloss of the raven, and eyes that have the hue of the violet."
"The loudest thunders of the church could not shake my trust in the purity of heaven, which is thine." "Because thou lovest, Arthur. Thy love for Marie is stronger than thy hatred of her race; and, oh! if thou lovest thus, I know thou hast forgiven." "Forgiven!" he passionately reiterated. "Yes, dearest Arthur.
The language of Providence in all his dealings with me has been almost like that to Abraham: 'Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac whom thou lovest, and offer him for a burnt offering, etc.
"Because thou art better, wiser, holier than I; that is all," said Margaret promptly. "Our lives tell another tale," said Gerard thoughtfully. "I know thy goodness and thy wisdom too well to reason thus perversely. Also I know that I love thee as dear as thou, I think, lovest me. Yet am I happier than thou. Why is this so?"
But he, stepping three paces back, replied, "Ah, woman of the court and wicked heart, thou lovest, then, thy face better than thy lover." She turned pale, and humbly held up her face, for she understood that at this moment her past perfidy wronged her present love. With a single blow Angelo slashed her face, then left her house, and quitted the country.
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