Maurice Hewlett

Frey and His Wife Maurice Hewlett

To that Glum, blinking hard, replied that there were things which any man might ask of another without reproach. "But," said Ogmund, "I would venture what I have of my own, so that what I win may be my own without cavil." "That's very fair," said Glum; "and what is it you expect to get out of the voyage?" Ogmund laughed a little, and spoke lightly. "Why," he said, "I expect to get rather more than I give for everything. That is the trader's way, the chapman's way. If he has a piece of goods that breeds no profit, overboard with it. It has not earned its stowage." Now Glum had his lips shut like a trap, and blinked fearfully. "Ah," he said, "and fame, and great report, and the lifted hands of men-what of those?"