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But when she had risen, and before she could leave the space by the altar, Siur had stepped up to her, and seized her hurriedly, folding both his arms about her; she let herself be held there, her bosom against his; then he held her away from him a little space, holding her by the arms near the shoulder; then he took her hands and laid them across his shoulders, so that now she held him.
Then said Cissela: 'May God help me in my need, as I am true to Siur. And the others went, and they two were left standing there alone, with no little awe over them, strange and shy as they had never yet been to each other. Cissela shuddered, and said in a quick whisper: 'Siur, on your knees! and pray that these oaths may never clash. 'Can they, Cissela? he said.
And so you, son Robert, are getting to be quite a cunning smith; but do you think you will ever beat Siur? 'Ah, mother, no, he said, 'there is something with him that makes him seem quite infinitely beyond all other workmen I ever heard of.
And the spirit of hope, never dead but sleeping only, woke up within their hearts: 'We may yet be a people, they said to themselves, 'if we can but get breathing time. And as they thought these things, and doubted, Siur rose up in the midst of them and said: 'You are right in what you think, countrymen, and she is right; she is altogether good and noble; send her forth.
Yet, surely the end of the world must come when we are swept off the face of the earth. God waits long, they say, before He avenges his own. As he was speaking, Siur and Cissela came nearer to him, and Cissela, all traces of her late terror gone from her face now, raising her lips to his bended forehead, kissed him fondly, and said, with glowing face, 'Father, how can I help our people?
And they said nothing; what could they say? Do you know any word for what they meant? And the father and brother stood by, looking quite awe-struck, more so they seemed than by her solemn oath. Till Siur, raising his head from where it lay, cried out aloud: 'May God forgive me as I am true to her! hear you, father and brother?
She could not think, she durst not; she feared, if she did, that she would curse her beauty, almost curse the name of love, curse Siur, though she knew he was right, for not slaying her; she feared that she might curse God.
So Siur gazed till he heard footsteps coming; then he turned to meet them. And Svend and his brethren sat silent in the council chamber, till they heard a great noise and clamour of the people arise through all the streets; and then they rose to see what it might be.
Some memory coming from that dreamland smote upon her heart more than the others; she blushed like a young girl, and said hesitatingly: 'Does he work with his left hand, son Robert; for I have heard that some men do so? But in her heart she remembered how once, long ago in the old mountain country, in her father's house, some one had said that only men who were born so, could do cunningly with the left hand; and how Siur, then quite a boy, had said, 'Well, I will try': and how, in a month or two, he had come to her with an armlet of silver, very curiously wrought, which he had done with his own left hand.
Then Svend said: 'And, mother, don't be angry with Siur, will you? because he sent a message to you by me. 'Angry! and straightway her soul was wandering where her body could not come, and for a moment or two she was living as before, with him close by her, in the old mountain land. 'Well, mother, he wanted me to ask you if you were happy now.
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