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And God help you if you let yourself escape!" And after a long while Siward said: "If I should ever marry--and--and--" "Had children, eh?
Is that it?
Oh, it is, eh?
Well, I say, marry! I say, have children! If you're a man, you'll breed men.

The chances are they may not inherit what you have.

It skips some generations--some, now and then.

But if they do, good God! I say it's better to be born and have a chance to fight than never to come into the arena at all! By winning out, the world learns; by failure, the world is no less wise.