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_Juliet._ Oh, think'st thou we shall ever meet again? _Romeo._ I doubt it not: and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our time to come. SHAKESPEARE: _Romeo and Juliet_.
The signal-light at Munkholm castle had just been extinguished, and in its place the sailor entering Throndhjem fjord saw the helmet of the soldier on guard gleam from afar in the beams of the rising sun like a planet moving in its orbit, when Schumacker, leaning on his daughter's arm, came down as usual into the garden which surrounded his prison. Both had spent a restless night, -- the old man unable to sleep, the maiden kept awake by happy thoughts. They walked in silence for a time; then the aged prisoner said, fixing a sad and serious gaze upon the lovely girl: --