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in such a state that he could give up Marie’s fortune; for
twelve thousand rix-dollars was a large sum in ready
money, and gold, landed estates, and manorial rights were
hard to part with when once acquired.
For upward of six months all went well at Tjele. Marie
felt a sense of comfort in the quiet country place, where
day after day passed all empty of events. The monotony
was something new to her, and she drank in the deep peace
with dreamy, passive enjoyment. When she thought of the
past, it seemed to her like a weary struggle, a restless
pressing onward without a goal, in the glare of smarting,
stinging light, deafened by intolerable noise and hubbub. A
delicious feeling of shelter and calm stole over her, a sense
of undisturbed rest in a grateful shadow, in a sweet and
friendly silence, and she liked to deepen the peace of her
refuge by picturing to herself the world outside, where
people were still striving and struggling, while she had, as
it were, slipped behind life and found a safe little haven,
where none could discover her or bring unrest into her
sweet twilight solitude.
As time went on, however, the silence became
oppressive, the peace dull, and the shadow dark. She began to
listen for sounds of living life from without. So it was not
unwelcome to her when Erik Grubbe proposed a change.
He wished her to reside at Kalö manor, the property of her
husband, and he pointed out to her that as Ulrik Frederik
had her entire fortune in his possession and yet did not send
anything for her maintenance, it was but fair she should be
supported from his estate. There she would be in clover;
she might have a houseful of servants and live in the elegant
and costly fashion to which she was accustomed, far better
than at Tjele, which was quite too poor for her. Moreover,
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