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Sintram and His Companions

CHAPTER 22
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We have overcome.

Oh, how soft and easy does the good God make it to us!" And so it came to pass.

He stretched himself back as if weary, and his soul was freed from his care-worn body.
Rolf now gently awoke his young knight, and pointed to the smiling dead.
And Sintram smiled too; he and his good esquire fell on their knees, and prayed to God for the departed spirit.

Then they rose up, and bore the cold body to the vaulted hall, and watched by it with holy candles until the return of the chaplain.

That the pilgrim would not come back again, they very well knew.
Accordingly towards mid-day the chaplain returned alone.


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