[The Wanderer’s Necklace by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wanderer’s Necklace CHAPTER V 6/28
Begone!" "We go," answered the spokesman of the messengers; "yet before we go, Thorvald, we would say to you that you and your folk are mad.
Some wrong has been done to your son, though perhaps not so much as you may think. For that wrong full atonement has been offered, and with it the hand of friendship on which you spit.
Know then that the mighty lord Athalbrand does not fear war, since for every man you can gather he numbers two, all pledged to him until the death.
Also he has consulted the oracle, and its answer is that if you fight with him, but one of your House will be left living." "Begone!" thundered my father, "lest presently you should stay here dead." So they went. That day my heart was very heavy, and I sought Freydisa to take counsel with her. "Trouble hovers over me like a croaking raven," I said.
"I do not like this war for a woman who is worth nothing, although she has hurt me sorely.
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