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When all the others were supplied, Hena took from her neck the garnet necklace that she wore and said to Margarid while kissing her hand: "Hena prays her mother to keep this out of love for her."
"It would have been better to give the officers a thorough caning and drive them in disgrace out of the town," replied Mamm' Margarid. "That is the way thieves are treated, and these Romans tried to rob us." "You are right, Margarid," said Joel; "they came to rob us to starve us! to carry away our harvests and our cattle!" And Joel, now in a towering rage, added: "By the vengeance of Hesus!
While some of the brenn's family were hurriedly gathering in the wheat harvest that still remained heaped on the fields, in order to deposit a portion of it in cellars that the laborers were digging on dry ground, the women, the girls and even the children, all working under the direction of Margarid, were as busily engaged disposing of salted meats into baskets, flour into bags, hydromel and wine into pouches; others were filling coffers with lint and balsam for wounds; others were adjusting broad and strong tent cloths over the chariots.
"The compliment is as sweet to me as to you, my daughter," answered Mamm' Margarid; saying which she began her story: "My grandmother's name was Syomara; she was the daughter of Ronan. Her father had taken her into lower Languedoc whither his traffic called him. The Gauls of the neighborhood were just preparing for the expedition to the East.
On this side the scythe-blades are turned towards the shaft of the chariot, and over there they are pointed backwards!" "It was I who had the weapons placed so," said she. "And why are not all the blades turned the same way, Margarid?" "Because a car is almost always attacked before and behind at once. In that case the two rows of scythes, placed in opposite directions, are the best defense.
But here are our men back from the stables; we shall not have to wait much longer for supper. I see Margarid unspitting the lambs. You shall taste them, friend, and see what a fine taste the salt meadows on which they browse impart to their flesh."
Friend guest, ask Mamm' Margarid to tell you the beautiful story and deed of one of her own female ancestors, which happened about a hundred and thirty years ago when our fathers went as far as Asia to found a new Gaul, because you must know that few are the countries on earth that their soles have not trod upon."
"Unless the healthy hand take an axe," said the brenn, "and cut off the foot from which the evil proceeds." "And what becomes of the body that is thus mutilated, Joel?" put in Mamm' Margarid who all the while had been listening in silence. "When the best regions of the country shall have been invaded by the stranger, what will then become of the rest of Gaul?
A short distance from them, two little children, three or four years old, bound around their waists merely by a light cord fastened to a stake, laughed and played in the straw with the heedlessness common to their age. The children evidently did not belong to either of the three women. At the other side of the stall I saw a matron of the noble carriage of my mother Margarid.
Then, listening intently, my father said to Mikael and myself: "Sons, I hear the cymbals of the bards and the clarions of the Trimarkisia. Let us rejoin our friends. Well, Margarid, well, my daughters, till we meet again, here or above!" "Here or above, our fathers and husbands will find us pure and unstained," answered Henory, more proud, more beautiful than ever.
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