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Now, that's a thing I never should have expected, that Valdemar Simonson should be in love, and in the silliest, most boyish manner. It is strange, and, to say the truth, it is sad," and she sighed. "But she? Katusha? How does she look at it, do you think?" Nekhludoff asked. "She?" Mary Pavlovna waited, evidently wishing to give as exact an answer as possible. "She?
It had been my design, originally, to wait for the physicians; but I was induced to proceed, first, by the urgent entreaties of M. Valdemar, and secondly, by my conviction that I had not a moment to lose, as he was evidently sinking fast. Mr.
Terror-stricken, the Esthlanders wavered, then turned, and fled. The battle became a massacre. Thousands were slain. The chronicles say that the dead lay piled fathom-high on the field that ran red with blood. Upon it, when the pursuit was over, Valdemar knelt with his men, and they bowed their heads in thanksgiving, while the venerable archbishop gave praise to God for the victory.
"Thelma," said Sir Philip then, very gently and gravely, "would you like can you bear to read your father's last words to you? He wrote to you on his death-bed, and gave the letter to Valdemar " "Oh, let me see it!" she murmured half-sobbingly. "Father, dear father! I knew he would not leave me without a word!"
Already the light shines from the Rainbow Bridge, there, there are the golden peaks of the hills and the stretch of the wide sea! Go, Valdemar! delay no longer, for my soul is impatient it burns, it struggles to be free! Go! and farewell!"
King Valdemar gave Denmark her first written laws that judged between man and man, in at least one of her provinces clear down into our day. "With law shall land be built" begins his code. "The law," it says, "must be honest, just, reasonable, and according to the ways of the people. It must meet their needs, and speak plainly so that all men may know and understand what the law is.
Tradition has it that Bengerd was killed in battle, having gone with her husband on one of his campaigns. "It was not heard in any place," says the folk-song wickedly, "that any one grieved for her." But the King mourned for his beautiful queen to the end of his days. Bengerd bore Valdemar three sons upon whom he lavished all the affection of his lonely old age.
Valdemar did not know what was coming and, fearing fresh trouble, got the archbishop to swear on the bones of the saints before them all that he was not moved to abdication by hate of the King, or by any coercion whatever. Then the venerable priest laid his staff, his mitre, and his ring on the altar and announced that he had done with it all forever.
The skull was cloven with one clean blow from the crown right down to the red bearded chin. "A wondrous strong blow!" murmured Valdemar. "But I see that it was struck from the front. How came it that Klerkon could not defend himself?"
For age after age this people had shown the same bold spirit and made many a gallant stand against the princes who sought to subdue them. Geert the Great and other princes of Sleswick and Holstein had suffered defeat at their hands, and the warlike Valdemar III. of Denmark had been sadly beaten by them.
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