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Yet the most of these times he kept his grief in his own heart; so much as Elfhild was moved when it brake forth from him, and she might, so to say, see the torments of him before her very eyes. Indeed on one while, when for a long time she might not comfort him, she told him that this was almost as bad as seeing him laid a-dying before her. But kind and dear they were to each other, and there was nought in them that was not lovely in those first days of their manhood.