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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 44

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d you aremine, all mine. I will keep you safe. Come ! and sun-bright diamonds, and two thin, starvedcorpses stretched upon them. Some men say thatthe brothers were slain by Siegfried, because theirfoolish strife and greediness had angered him.But I like not to think so. It was the gold, andnot… … GIVE ME THE SWORD WHICH LIES SIEGFRIED. Come, my bright Beauties! No one shall harmyou. You are mine, mine, mine! And he chat-tered and laughed as only madmen laugh ; and hekissed the hard stones and sought to hide them inhis bosom. But his hands trembled and failed,dark mists swam before his eyes;…

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