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saw this note appended to Gösta Berling’s name:
“Because the Major’s wife took advantage of my
weakness to lure me away from honest labor and
has kept me a cavalier at Ekeby, because she made
me the murderer of Ebba Dohna by informing her
that I was a discharged clergy man, I sign this paper.”
The Major’s wife folded it slowly and replaced
it in the envelope. Afterwards she lay and thought
over what she had just learned. She understood
with bitter grief that such had been the people’s
thought about her. She was a witch and a sorceress
to all those whom she had served, to whom she had
given work and bread. That was her wage, such
would be her reputation. They could think no better
of a woman who had been faithless to her husband.
But what cared she for the outside world! They
stood afar off, but those poor cavaliers who had
lived by her grace and knew her well, even they
believed it or pretended to believe it to gain an
excuse for appropriating Ekeby. Her thoughts moved
rapidly. Anger and revenge burned in her feverish
brain. She ordered the Broby parson’s daughter,
who, together with the Countess Elizabeth, was
watching beside her, to send to Högfors for the
manager and inspector. She wanted to make her
will.
Again she lay thinking. Her eyebrows were
drawn together; her features were convulsed by
awful pain.
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