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Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Lillie Tudeer
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Major’s wife not to die as long as the Broby
parson’s daughter remained in service at Ekeby. But
Sintram declared that she could no longer be
considered a servant after inheriting all her father’s
money. Gösta objected that the Broby parson had
hidden his riches so well that no one could find
them. Then Sintram smiled and said the money
was hidden among the pigeons’ nests in the steeple
of Broby church; and with that he departed.
Afterwards Gösta went up to the forest again. It seemed
to him it would be best for him to die on the spot
where the Nygård peasant girl had killed herself.
He had wandered about there all day; he had seen
his wife, and had not been able to kill himself at
once.

All this he told his wife while lying bound on
the floor of the forest hut.

“Oh,” she said sorrowfully, “how well I
recognize all that! All heroics and bravado! Always
ready to thrust your hands into the flames, Gösta,
always ready to throw yourself away! How great
it once seemed to me! And how much I prize
calmness and sense now! What good could you do
to the dead by making such a promise? The coffin
could have been raised again, and new crape and
new wreaths could have been made! If you had laid
your hand on the good man’s coffin, there before
Sintram’s eyes, and sworn to help the people whom
he had tried to ruin, how I should have prized your

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