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for ever since his separation from Sofie Urne he had nursed
a spite against Mistress Rigitze, whom he suspected, as one
of the Queen’s warmest adherents, of having had a finger
in the matter. But Rosenkrands stopped, and Axel Urup
urged them so cordially to sup with the party in Johan
Adolph’s garden that they could not well refuse.
A few minutes later they were all sitting in the little
brick summer-house, eating the simple country dishes that
the gardener set before them.
“Is it true, I wonder,” asked Mistress Ide Daa, “that the
Swedish officers have so bewitched the maidens of
Sjaelland with their pretty manners that they have followed
them in swarms out of land and kingdom?”
“Marry, it’s true enough at least of that minx, Mistress
Dyre,” replied Mistress Sidsel Grubbe.
“Of what Dyres is she?” asked Mistress Rigitze.
“The Dyres of Skaaneland, you know, sister, those
who have such light hair.They’re all intermarried with the
Powitzes. The one who fled the country she’s a daughter
of Henning Dyre of West Neergaard, he who married
Sidonie, the eldest of the Ove Powitzes, and she went bag and
baggage—took sheets, bolsters, plate, and ready money
from her father.”
“Ay,” smiled Axel Urup, “strong love draws a heavy
load.”
“Faith,” agreed Oluf Daa,who always struck out with
his left hand when he talked, “love—as a man may
say—love is strong.”
“Lo-ove,” drawled Rosenkrands, daintily stroking his
moustache with the back of his little finger, “is like
Hercules in female dress, gentle and charming in
appearance and seeming all weak-ness and mild-ness, yet it has
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