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oath! If you had thought, when you saw the people
in church, ‘I will help them; I will devote all my
strength to assisting them,’ and had not laid the
burden upon your weak wife and old men with failing
strength, I should have prized that too.”
Gösta Berling lay silent a moment.
“We cavaliers are not free men,” he said at
length. “We have promised one another to live for
pleasure and for pleasure alone. Woe to us all if
one fails!”
“Woe to you,” said the Countess angrily, “that
you are the most cowardly of the cavaliers and the
last in amendment. Yesterday afternoon all eleven
sat at home in the cavaliers’ wing, and they were
very gloomy. You were absent, Captain Lennert
was dead, and the honor and glory of Ekeby was
destroyed. They left the toddy glasses untouched,
and would not show themselves before me. Then
Anna Lisa, who stands there, went to them. You
know she is a sharp little woman, who, for many
years, fought on despairingly amid neglect and
waste.
“‘To-day I have been home again seeking for my
father’s money,’ she said to the old cavaliers, ‘but
found nothing. All the notes on hand are cancelled,
and all the drawers and cupboards stand empty.’
“‘It was a great pity,’ replied Beerencreutz.
“‘When the Major’s wife left Ekeby, she bade
me look after it. If I had found my father’s money,
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