This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...Thorey. But Thorgils did not disturb her, and nobody else dared. As for Thorgils himself, having fed Thorfinn, he put him inside his coat and lay on his elbow all night, watching over him. It was a bad night for all of them, but for him the worst he had ever known in his life, or was ever likely to know. CHAPTER XII ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...Thorey. But Thorgils did not disturb her, and nobody else dared. As for Thorgils himself, having fed Thorfinn, he put him inside his coat and lay on his elbow all night, watching over him. It was a bad night for all of them, but for him the worst he had ever known in his life, or was ever likely to know. CHAPTER XII THE ISLANDS HE was much changed by that dreadful stroke. The spring was out of him which had made him ever the first in adventure; but in one thing he was not changed at all. All the grief he felt for Thorey he kept closely to himself. The graves of the two foster sisters lay side by side, a cross upon each. None saw Thorgils beside them; none knew whether he prayed there or not, or shed tears, or allowed his thoughts to turn backward to days of past and done happiness. It is likely that he did not seek out the graves; he was not a man to mourn over what was done; but each of the three companions left him out of near thirty who had started out noticed how fiercely he attached himself to his child Thorfinn. It looked as if all his strong heart had fastened itself about that frail plant. He never let him be out of his sight, slept with him, washed and fed him himself. They thought that if the boy should die during the coming winter Thorgils would himself give up his wish to live--and what would become of them then? It was plain that they must look for another winter in the deserted bay. It would be three years since they came into it, and for the whole of that time no living soul had they seen except each other. They were hard put to it to feed themselves, and knowing that it would be harder in the wintertime, they spent all their time hunting; for now that they had no boat it was difficult to fish. They made themselves lines and hooks out of odd ...
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