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THE SKJUTS-BOY. 29#’
dear girl, tell me why you weep, for you know that everything,
even death, bas ifs cause."
" Would you not weep, dear lV[ina, if your husband lived far
away, and you would bave fo separate from your loved home,
where you had lived during your youth, and if you would be
obliged fo leave all the dear spots you love, and to which you
feel firmly bounduto be obliged to lire far away from your
parents #"
" Ah, yes, thut would hot be ve#y pleasant, certainly # but do
you not know that if is written in the ]#ible, ’ Woman shall
leave ber ç#ther and mother, and follow man.’ And as for your
servants, your fields, meadows, and mountains, your lakes, and
your cattle, they are earthly, which can be found elsewhere in
the world. If would be bad for our cattle, sheep, and especially
our lambs, if I should leave them; but I would take some along
with me for breeding; and at least one big ewe would remain
to me as a consolation."
" You are always more sensible than I," said Amelia, and
could not do other than smfle, in spire of ber natural excite-
ment, at lV[ina’s plain, fiat prose.
" But now let us hurry and finish, for I hear my husband on
the staircase."
The young ladies returned to their occupation, but suddenly
#[ina sprang from the carr]age with loud screams» clasping ber
hands above her head–-
" Amelia! Amelia! see what we bave done; there, that is
what such a stupid, sentimental comedy cornes fo."
Amelia turned ber head» and O, woe! there lay all the provi-
sions comæletely smashed to atoms by Mina’s embrace. Cheese,
goose-breasts, roasted chickens, cakes, all were lying topsy-turvy,
like carrots and turnips.
" Yes» yes, I see that the ladies bave packed up excellently
well," said Borgenstierna, who arrived just in rime fo catch his
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