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life-giving water. A faint wind, scarcely strong enough to
move the windmill at the cross-road below, was soughing
forlornly in the tree-tops like a timid wail of the forest
burning under summer heat and sun-glow. As a beggar bares
his pitiful wound, so the parched, yellow meadows spread
their barren misery under the gaze of heaven.
The clouds gathered and lowered, and a few raindrops
fell, one by one, heavy as blows on the leaves and straws,
which would bend to one side, shake, and then be suddenly
still again. The swallows flew low along the ground, and
the blue smoke of the evening meal drooped like a veil over
the black thatched roofs in the village near by.
A coach rumbled heavily over the road, and from the
walks at the foot of the hill came the sound of low laughter
and merry talk, rustling of fans and silk gowns, barking
of tiny lapdogs, and snapping and crunching of dry twigs.
The court was taking its afternoon promenade.
Marie and Sti Högh had left the others to climb the
hill, and were standing quite breathless after their hurried
ascent of the steep path.
Sti Högh was then a man in his early thirties, tall and
lean, with reddish hair and a long, narrow face. He was pale
and freckled, and his thin, yellow-white brows were arched
high over bright, light gray eyes, which had a tired look
as if they shunned the light, a look caused partly by the
pink color that spread all over the lids, and partly by his
habit of winking more slowly, or rather of keeping his eyes
closed longer, than other people did. The forehead was high,
the temples well rounded and smooth. The nose was thin,
faintly arched, and rather long, the chin too long and too
pointed, but the mouth was exquisite, the lips fresh in color
and pure in line, the teeth small and white. Yet it was not
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