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Rh blood bond between us. But thou art the king, and whenever thou hast chosen thy wife or thy warfare—I pray they come not together—it is only for thy poor old kinswoman to say: ‘God speed thee ever.’”

Scant in warmth as were these congratulations that Olaf had wrung from his friends, he was fain to be satisfied with them.