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(1852) [MARC] Author: Emilie Flygare-Carlén Translator: Alex L. Krause
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144 THE SKJUTS-BO Y:
weakening his own hcalth; so that Ivar, for the purpose of
becoming easy in mind, af last allowed him to act as he saw fit,
for he could hot prcvent lfimself from thinking that Wir(#n was
right in the end.
":But this does hot complcte the business," said the assessor#
"’ you are in necd of fresh air, and relaxation of mind as well as
body. Corne, our honest old baron will take you on a voyage of
mo " "
discovery on Easter rmng.
Several days had elapsed. :[t was on a Sunday evening: the
ball guests had already left the dancing-hall, and the streets
were ruled by quietncss, which indicated that a rime of rest had
arrived. A cool night brceze wafted through the air, and
howled with low murmurings through the distant mountains of
Strocmdal. :From "the broken fields," a place which was
situated some distance from the city, and had been used during
the old wars as a burial-ground, and which the superstitious
said was haunted, a thick fog arose, and through ifs misty veil
there might bave been seen a human figure, moving to and fro,
like a ghost of fancy, which grows larger or smaller as we look
af if with distorted or excited senses.
It was Borgenstierna, who, with his dog, wandered over the
uneven #ound to the place where, af the present rime, is located
the cholera burying-ground, whcre can be seen the plain but
numerous monuments of that destructive plague, which, during
the year following our story, drove away all the bathing guests
from Stroemstad.
In deep gloomy melancholy, worn out and fati#md in body
and mind, Ivar leaned against the grey stone wall, which forms
the boundary of the valley. His hear# was both full and void–-
if was overflowing with pain, #vith infinite longings; but at the
saine time dreary and "void, for he felt hhnself so lonely, so
isolated, without having once the consolation of plac#ng his cold
cheek upon the burnîng brow of his son.
It is a mournful and we#ghty feeling of sadness to stand alone

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