The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 3G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... asked if the champion's belt should not be his who had overcome the cham- pion . But Jorgen answered no that the contest was over , and judgment made , and he who would take the champion's belt must come to the next Althing and earn it ...
... asked if the champion's belt should not be his who had overcome the cham- pion . But Jorgen answered no that the contest was over , and judgment made , and he who would take the champion's belt must come to the next Althing and earn it ...
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... asked for delay . But Jorgen's iron will was to be tampered with no longer . The time was near when the Minister must return to Copenhagen , and that was reason enough why the thing in hand should be despatched . The marriage must be ...
... asked for delay . But Jorgen's iron will was to be tampered with no longer . The time was near when the Minister must return to Copenhagen , and that was reason enough why the thing in hand should be despatched . The marriage must be ...
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... asked where she was then , that she was not with them . Jorgen answered , with an absent look , that she was forced to keep her room . At that moment a message came for the Count . It was urgent , and could not wait . The Count went to ...
... asked where she was then , that she was not with them . Jorgen answered , with an absent look , that she was forced to keep her room . At that moment a message came for the Count . It was urgent , and could not wait . The Count went to ...
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... asked to be taken away . Anywhere , anywhere , let it be to the world's end , and she would follow . Stephen answered that one place was like another in Iceland , where the people were few and all knew their story ; and , as for foreign ...
... asked to be taken away . Anywhere , anywhere , let it be to the world's end , and she would follow . Stephen answered that one place was like another in Iceland , where the people were few and all knew their story ; and , as for foreign ...
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... asked how much a boat would cost him , and he answered sixty crowns ; that a Scotch captain then in the harbor had such a one to sell at that price , and that it was a better boat than the fishermen of those parts ever owned , for it ...
... asked how much a boat would cost him , and he answered sixty crowns ; that a Scotch captain then in the harbor had such a one to sell at that price , and that it was a better boat than the fishermen of those parts ever owned , for it ...
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