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"Good night, dear wife, I ara sleepy, and you will be obliged
fo rise early to-morrow morning, therefore you will do better fo
sleep than quarrel about nothing."
19recisely a# six o’clock the next morning the horses were
puwing before the hall-door. ]VIudame de Dressea was already
in the kitchea fo give ber lmst commands to the servants, and
Ameliu was prel#aring the coffee-table in the saloon, which was
lighted by four candles. This business proceeded slowly this rime,
as she was bothering her little heart how she could thank Ivar
for lais present.
When the latter entered the room, she was so much confused,
#ha# she was hot able fo say a word.
"Are you up so soon, my young lady#" said he, seeming to
enjoy ber confusion; "how good a cup of eoffee will faste now."
"13u# i# does #tot appeur to look very good," said Amelia,
busying herself in testing a few drops in a teaspoon.
"If is cleur as crystal."
".Ay! so, sol but I must see where naamma keeps herseff;
we must hurry, or else we will be too lute."
A# this moment ]#¢[adarne de Dressen en#ered, and excused
ber husbund, who, a# she said, was no# very well, and wus unable
to rise, which in reulity meunt that the lieutenun#-colonel slept
like a bear, and his wffe did hot dure wake him. After they
had partaken of the coffee, hIadame de Dressen ruade the pro-
position rhum, as there was only one sleigh with ¢wo seats a#
their disposal, she would be much obliged ff Borgenstierna
would be kind enough to drive Amelia. She herself would ride
in a sleigh, behind wlfich a man servant should stand on the
runners for the purpose of driving ber.
I# was u biffer cold morning, the snow-flakes whirled irt dense
clouds #ound the innaates of the sleighs; the show creaked
gaily beneath the runners, and amid the merry jîngling of the
sleigh-bells, the sleigh-ride wen# along joyously. The road
passed through a dense forest, which, in the dira ligh# of the
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