Word: martyrâ
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...Ingunn. She chafed under his kindness, marveled that he could forgive her former infidelity, suspected him of retaliating in kind. This finally the good SIGRID UNDSET She did Nobel work at night. man did. Immediately he rued it, lavished yearly more tenderness upon his ailing wife, while she?sad martyr???bore him son after still-born son. Thus The Snake Pit, part two of the tetralogy, ends with the master's murder still unconfessed, unatoned; and promises tremendous cumu lative tragedy in the two unwritten volumes. Less vigorous than the earlier volumes The Snake Pit necessarily strikes a minor...
Solemnity, like the pall of night, quickly fell upon the momentary levity as the Priest held the child high in his arms, saying: "I dedicate thee, Rosa, little flower of human life, to the cause of Russian women?Rosa, sweetest of flowers; Luxembourg, honored name of a martyr???beauty and sacrifice." As if in obedience to a magic wand the entire assembly rose, and with the passion of youth and the feeling of age the Internationale was sung?then...
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