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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 570

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you aremine, all mine. 1 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.Hut 1 like not to think so. It was the gold, andnot… … GIVE .ME THE SWORD WHICH LIES BEFORE VOI* ON THE GLITTERING HEAP, SAID 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…

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