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and he has hunted in all the peasant huts for pieces
of furniture that have found their way there from
auctions at the old estates. He has bought them,
and there are high-backed armchairs and chests with
bright mountings there now. But in the bigger room
stands the young mistress’s loom and my turning-lathe.
Household furniture and all kinds of things
are there already, and Lövenborg and I have sat
there many evenings and talked of the time my
young Countess and I shall live in the crofter’s hut.
But my wife hears of this for the first time. We
intended telling her about it when we should leave
Ekeby.”
“Continue, Gösta!”
“Lövenborg always said it was necessary to have
a servant girl in the house. ‘In summer it is
blessedly beautiful here on the birch promontory,’ he
said; ‘but it will be too dull in the winter for the
young wife. You must get a servant girl, Gösta.’
And I was quite of his opinion, but I could not see
how I was to afford to keep a servant girl. Then
one day he came there with his music notes and his
table with the painted keyboard and placed it in
the cottage. ‘You, Lövenborg, are to be the servant
girl, then?’ I said to him. He answered that
probably he would be needed. Was it my intention
that the Countess should cook the dinner and carry
wood and water herself? No, I did not mean she
should do anything at all as long as I had a pair of
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