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Updated: June 17, 2025
If you were a man it would be different. I would cut out your lying tongue, or make it eat its own words." With railing and insolence she defied him to the act, and David stood looking at her with his hands in his pockets. As for Nanna, she had thrown off her cloak and seated herself on Vala's couch.
She did not turn her head; she did not feel the frozen earth or the cutting east wind; she saw nothing but Vala's small face on her breast, and she heard nothing but the echo in her heart of those terrible words threatening her with the loss of her child. When she reached the kirk the service had begun. The minister was praying.
Her face, handsomely prominent in youth, had become with sin and age like that of a bird of prey; it was all nose and two fierce, gleaming eyes. "Do you talk of the devil?" she screamed. "You, who drove your husband to sin, and sent your baby to hell!" Then Nanna, with a pitiful cry, buried her face in Vala's pillow; and David, full of anger, said: "I will take you from this house, mistress.
As she understood it, duty was no peradventure; it was an absolute thing from which there was no turning away. And her duty was to be at home when her husband was there. But she put Vala's hand into David's hand, and then looked at the young man with eyes full of anxiety. He answered the look with one strong word: "Yes!" And she knew he would redeem it with his life, if that should be necessary.
Verily, verily, my spirit hath lost its power, and leaves me bowed, in the awe of night, a feeble, aged, hopeless, childless woman!" Tears of human weakness rolled down the Vala's cheeks.
She has a good guard at my house. There is Groat and his four sons on one side, and Jeppe Madson and his big brother Har on the other side; and there is David Borson, who is worth a whole ship's crew, to back them in anything for Vala's safety. Stay with me to-day, Nanna, and we will talk this matter out." But Nanna shook her head in reply.
Already his cruel hands had crippled her child; and what neglect, what terrors, what active barbarities, might he not impose on the little one in the hell of his own ship! Who there could prevent him? Little did Nicol Sinclair care for public opinion on land; but out at sea, where Vala's tears and cries could bring her no help, what pitiless inhumanities might he not practise?
He dismissed the leach sent to him by Vebba, and confided, not without reason, to the Vala's skill. And how happily went his hours beneath the old Roman roof!
"If he had known Nicol Sinclair as I " "Yes, Nanna, but it is an awful thing to die eternally. If I could help to save any one from such a fate, even my worst enemy, even your enemy and Vala's, what should I have done? Tell me." "Just what you did. You have done right. Yes; though the man killed Vala, you have done right! You have done right!" "I knew that would be your last word."
He dismissed the leach sent to him by Vebba, and confided, not without reason, to the Vala's skill. And how happily went his hours beneath the old Roman roof!
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