I am coming,answered his wife; and then she cried, Anne, sister Anne, dost thou not see anyone coming?
I see,replied sister Anne, a great dust, which comes on this side here.
Are they my brothers?
Alas! no, my dear sister, I see a flock of sheep.
Will you not come down?cried Blue Beard
One moment longer,said his wife, and then she cried out: Anne, sister Anne, dost thou see nobody coming?
I see,said she, two horsemen, but they are yet a great way off.
God be praised,replied the poor wife joyfully; they are my brothers; I will make them a sign, as well as I can, for them to make haste.
Then Blue Beard bawled out so loud that he made the whole house tremble. The distressed wife came down, and threw herself at his feet, all in tears, with her hair about her shoulders.
This signifies nothing,says Blue Beard; you must die then, taking hold of her hair with one hand, and lifting up the sword with the other, he was going to take off her head. The poor lady, turning about to him, and looking at him with dying eyes, desired him to afford her one little moment to recollect herself.
No, no,said he, recommend thyself to God,and was just ready to strike . . .
At this very instant there was such a loud knocking at the gate that Blue Beard made a sudden stop. The gate was opened, and presently entered two horsemen, who, drawing their swords, ran directly to Blue Beard. He knew them to be his wifes brothers, one a dragoon, the other a musketeer, so that he ran away immediately to save himself; but the two brothers pursued so close that they overtook him before he could get to the steps of the porch, when they ran their swords through his body and left him dead. The poor wife was almost as dead as her husband, and had not strength enough to rise and welcome her brothers.
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