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Updated: June 28, 2025
A minute later a scream rang close to his ear; the stallion leaped as if at a water-brook, and as suddenly sank backward with a dozen wolves on his haunches. "Father!" shrieked Gwennolar. "Father!" He felt her arms dragged from around his neck. With an arm over his wife Niotte he crouched, waiting for the fangs to pierce his neck.
"Cousin," said Wassamo, "some person is near us. I hear a laugh; awake and let us look out!" The cousin made no answer. Again Wassamo heard the laughter in mirthful repetition, like the ripple of the water-brook upon the shining pebbles of the stream. Peering out as far as the line of the torchlight pierced into the darkness, he beheld two beautiful young females smiling on him.
Disraeli says that each of the royal family and each nobleman chose for his favorite song a psalm expressive of his own feeling or sentiments. The Dauphin, as became a brave huntsman, chose "Ainsi qu'on vit le cerf bruyre," "As the hart panteth after the water-brook," and he gayly and noisily sang it when he went to the chase. The Queen chose "Ne vueilles pas, o sire, Me reprendre en ton ire."
"I suppose `to thirst' means to earnestly desire. `Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness, you remember. And David says, `As the hart panteth after the water-brook, so panteth my soul after Thee, O God! And in another place, `My soul thirsteth for Thee." Gertrude neither moved nor spoke, and Christie went on
Why, Jesus my God! why is my heart arid, and dark, and dumb, when Thou art its dayspring, and the song of birds, and the water-brook flowing from the hills?" Fra Mino dreaded to return to his cell, and thinking prayer would dispel his melancholy and calm his disquiet, he passed into the Monastery Church by the low door leading from the cloister.
Her new husband was a cruel, wicked man, who treated his stepson very badly, and gave him scarcely anything to eat, and only rags to wear; and he would certainly have killed the boy but for fear of the people. Now by the palace grounds there ran a brook, but instead of being a water-brook it was a milk-brook, and both rich and poor flocked to it daily and drew as much milk as they chose.
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