They met with a hospitable reception; and when they had beenthere a while, they explained their business to Thorar.
He had the wealth of a princeabout his person, and yet the storehouse showed no diminution of itsboundless supply, which was enough to burden a regiment of soldiers.
Then one Sunday afternoon in April Johnathan came home from a few hours’work on his books to find the gas lighted in the front parlor and someone playing on the cottage organ.
He was wearing his dove-grey suit, and under his arm was an enormouscanvas wrapped in brown paper.
"I have not the power to givethese little ones enough to eat--I am not free to run away fromthem.
Very prudent was he, of good understanding; and it is theuniversal opinion that no chief ever was in northern lands of such deepjudgment and ready counsel as Harald.
I only mentioned this, gentlemen, because it seemedso unnatural to me for a son to betray his mother’s secret in such away.
And as the dull light of the fire shone on the circle of dark, beardedmountaineers, the grim lines of their faces showed that the valor of thevillage had not weakened with the passing years, nor had the wrongs ofthe village fathers been forgot.
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She stood before me, dreadfully ashamed of herself, andwith downcast eyes; and when I had finished she kissed my hand.
5For a moment, all that George Finch felt as he glared out at thislatest visitation was a weak resentment at the oafishness of Fate inusing the same method for his tormenting that it had used so short awhile before.
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