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earth, that she is as tender as you are hard, and as
good as you are evil?
“And I will tell you who she is. In the first place,
she is an angel from heaven; and secondly, she has
been the wife of the Count at Borg. But her
mother-in-law was cruel to her, both by day and by
night; she was forced to stand at the lake and wash
clothes like a common servant; she was beaten and
badly treated; none of your own women have been
treated worse. Yes, she nearly threw herself into the
river because she was so cruelly treated, and I
wonder which of you, you rascals, were at hand to save
her life. None of you were there, but we cavaliers,
we did it. Yes, we did it.
“And afterwards, when her child was born in a
peasant hut, the Count sent her a greeting, saying,
‘We were married in a foreign land, we did not do
it legally and as is ordained. You are not my wife, I
am not your husband. I care not for your child.’
And when she did not wish that the child should be
inscribed as fatherless in the church books, you,
of course, would have been too proud if she had
said to one of you, ‘Come, marry me; I must have
a father for the child!’ But she chose none of you.
She chose Gösta Berling, the poor parson, who may
never again expound God’s word. I tell you, men,
I have never done a harder thing, for I am so
unworthy of her. I dared not look into her eyes, but
I could not say ‘No;’ she was in such great despair.
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