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He never found peace and rest until he found them in the grave. Birger Jarl by these means rose to be the mightiest man in the north. His son was king of Norway, his daughter was queen of Sweden, and his daughter-in-law was a princess of Denmark, for when Valdemar became twenty years of age he sought and won for his bride the beautiful Danish Princess Sophia.
She was placed on a descending plank, to which she was attached by a chain and rope pulley, so that at any time of the weather or tide she could be moved glidingly downwards into deep water and this was what Valdemar occupied himself in doing. It was a hard task.
"I suppose I was rude," he considered after a while. "She seemed to think so, at any rate. By Jove! what a crushing look she gave me! A peasant? Not she! If she had said she was an empress I shouldn't have been much surprised. But a mere common peasant, with that regal figure and those white hands! I don't believe it. Perhaps our pilot, Valdemar, knows who she is; I must ask him."
I mean to say that the sound was one of distinct of even wonderfully, thrillingly distinct syllabification. M. Valdemar spoke obviously in reply to the question I had propounded to him a few minutes before. I had asked him, it will be remembered, if he still slept. He now said: "Yes; no; I have been sleeping and now now I am dead."
Absalon came into the room as Knud fell and, thinking it was Valdemar, caught him in his arms and took his wounded head in his lap. Sitting there in utter sorrow and despair, heedless of the tumult that raged in the darkness around him, he felt the King's garment and knew that the man who was breathing his last in his arms was not his friend.
I saw the beer vats which began to be filled with the golden brew that King Valdemar had ordered, and the groups which gathered around them.
After two years and a half in chains, Valdemar was ransomed by his people with a great sum of gold. The Danish women gave their rings and their jewels to bring back their king. They flocked about him when he returned, and received him like the conqueror of old; but he rode among them gray and stern, and his thoughts were far away.
It is now rather more than seven months since I received, from M. Valdemar himself, the subjoined note: My DEAR P , You may as well come now. D and F are agreed that I cannot hold out beyond to-morrow midnight; and I think they have hit the time very nearly. I received this note within half an hour after it was written, and in fifteen minutes more I was in the dying man's chamber.
It was now the opinion, or rather the wish, of the physicians, that M. Valdemar should be suffered to remain undisturbed in his present apparently tranquil condition, until death should supervene and this, it was generally agreed, must now take place within a few minutes. I concluded, however, to speak to him once more, and merely repeated my previous question.
As he reached the house, he stopped short and uttered a wild exclamation. There, under the porch hung with sparkling icicles, stood Thelma! . . . Thelma, her face pale and weary, yet smiling faintly, Thelma with the glint of her wondrous gold hair escaping from under her hat, and glittering on the folds of her dark fur mantle. "I have come home, Valdemar!" said the sweet, rich, penetrating voice.
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