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Now King Olaf hated a traitor beyond all men, so he had Kark led away, and ordered one of his berserks to smite the head off him, thus fulfilling the murdered earl's prophecy, for a ring not of gold but of blood was put about the traitor's neck. King Olaf then fared with many of the bonders out to Nid holm.
But the pathetic image of a forlorn and orphaned childhood, "un nid que la foudre a brise," which it calls up, and the tone of brotherly affection, linger in one's memory.
'I had rather live at Chateau Leurre, or my own Nid de Merle, she replied. 'There I should see Soeur Monique, and my aunt, the Abbess, and we would have the peasants to dance in the castle court. Oh! if you could but see the orchards at Le Bocage, you would never want to go away. And we could come now and then to see my dear Queen. 'I am glad at least you would not live at court.
There remained my son to be disposed of, but I had full confidence in the Abbe, who had bred up his father so well, and my boy would, I knew, always look up to him and obey him, so that I could leave him in his care when not in waiting, and they were even to spend the summer together in a little expedition to Nid de Merle.
'M. de Nid de Merle has been all the spring in Poland with the King, said the minister, 'and the poor lady is thought to have perished at La Sablerie. Thus the danger has been less pressing, but I would have taken her to England at once, if I could have made sure of her reception, and besides he faltered. 'The means? demanded the Duchess, guessing at the meaning. 'Madame is right.
But the Ambassador believed him to have been privy to his son's designs; and whether Mdlle. de Nid de Merle herself had been a willing agent or not, she certainly had remained in the hands of the family.
I had much rather my dear little Nid de Merle were with you than left here, to become like all the others. She is a good little Liegling, how do you call it in French? She has told me all, and truly I would help you with all my heart, but it is not as if I were the Queen-mother. You must have recourse to the King, who loves you well, and at my request included you in the hunting-party.
The camp had been so hastily abandoned that all the luggage had been left, and, like a true valet, Osbert had not neglected the opportunity of replenishing his master's wardrobe. 'And, said he, 'I saw there on whom M. le Baron knows, M. de Nid de Merle. 'Here! cried Eustacie, startled for a moment, but her eyes resting reassured on her husband.
As the price of that, he resigns for ever all his claims to the ancestral castle to La Leurre, and above all, that claim to Nid de Merle as Eustacie's widower, which, should he ever discover the original contract, will lead to endless warfare. 'His marriage with Eustacie was annulled. Yet yet there might be doubts.
Cecile could hardly believe that such peace and comfort were in store for her, and her tyrant looked as gloomy as Erebus at losing her slave, but we did not care for that; we brought her home in triumph, and a fortnight's notice was given to the foster-mother in which to wean Mademoiselle d'Aubepine and bring her to Nid de Merle. That fortnight was spent by our guest in bed.
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