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Thore seemed to make no stand against it, but took to his bed, from which Gudrid knew he would never rise. She waited on him hand and foot; he lay there watching her with his aching eyes, and wounded her to the heart. He hardly ever spoke, and seldom asked for anything. Thorstan used to come up most days to ask how he did. Gudrid knew quite well when he was on the road, and would tell Thore.
The people mutinied, went in crowds to the Palace, and used very abusive language to the President de Thore, Emeri's son. The Parliament was obliged to pass a decree against the mutineers. The Court, overjoyed to see the Parliament and the people together by the ears, supported the decree by a regiment of French and Swiss Guards.
When men were sent to search the island and capture him he killed some of them, seized their boat, and made his escape. King Erik was furious, but Thore Herse got him to accept a money payment for Baard's death as was then the custom of the land and he agreed to let Egil dwell in Norway unharmed. This was not to the queen's liking.
He did not believe Thore was dead, nor did she. "No, no, he won't die so. He will die in my arms." So Gudrid said. They took off the sick man first, and Gudrid with him. Both of them were put to bed, where Gudrid, who was now in a fever, soon became light-headed. Leif attended to her like a woman. It was wonderful to see so big a man so gentle and light in the hand.
He told them to bear out in deeds what they had done in jest; and, plucking out the swords which he and his man kept shut in their staves, attacked the king. So some aided Ole, taking it more as jest than earnest, and would not be false to the loyalty which they mockingly yielded him; but most of them, breaking their idle vow, took the side of Thore. Thus arose an internecine and undecided fray.
To give an idea of interest and its mechanism, allow me to make use of two or three anecdotes. But, first, I must say a few words upon capital. There are some persons who imagine that capital is money, and this is precisely the reason why they deny its productiveness; for, as M. Thoré says, crowns are not endowed with the power of reproducing themselves.
"Have any young folks been out to-day?" "Yes; but are gone again." "Yes, yes, to be sure; there will most likely be a meeting somewhere this evening." "I presume there will be. Thore says they shall not meet in his house until they have the old man's consent." "Right, quite right." Presently the mother cried, "There! I think they are coming." The school-master looked long in the distance.
Suddenly the loud, quivering tones of the post-horn were heard, "Es ritten drei Reiter zum Thore hinaus." "He has come!" cried Marie, and her face beamed with delight. "He calls me! I am coming! Farewell, dear, peaceful room, where I have so toiled, wept, and suffered! I shall never see thee again! My beloved calls me, and I go to follow him even unto death! Pardon me, O God!
"I am loth to let thee go, dear child," he said, "and afraid lest I lose thee altogether. But thou art between two old men who love thee, and Thore has the first claim. Promise me this, that if he die before me thou wilt come back to Brattalithe and be a daughter to me." "Yes," Gudrid said, "I promise you that." "Right," said old Eric. "Then I shall live to see thee again."
But if, on the contrary, MM. Proudhon and Thoré are deceiving themselves, it follows that they are leading the people astray that they are showing them the evil where it does not exist; and thus giving a false direction to their ideas, to their antipathies, to their dislikes, and to their attacks.
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