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More astonishing yet was the change in his state of mind.
He seemed lively, even merry. In the past, he had always
looked as if he were marching with stately step in his own
funeral procession, but now he trod the floor with the
air of a man who owned half the world and had the other
half coming to him. In the old days, there had always
been something of the plucked fowl about him, but now
he seemed like an eagle, with spreading plumage and sharp
eyes hinting of still sharper claws.
Marie at first thought the change was due to his relief in
casting behind him past worries and his hope of winning a
future worth while, but when he had been with her several
days, and had not opened his lips to one of the love-sick,
dispirited words she knew so well, she began to believe he
had conquered his passion and now, in the sense of proudly
setting his heel on the head of the dragon love, felt free and
strong and master of his own fate. She grew quite curious
to know whether she had guessed aright, and thought, with
a slight feeling of pique, that the more she saw of Sti Högh,
the less she knew him.
This impression was confirmed by a talk she had with
Lucie. The two were walking in the large hall which formed
a part of every Lübeck house, serving as entry and
living-room, as playground for the children and the scene of the
chief household labors, besides being used sometimes for
dining-room and storehouse. This particular hall was
intended chiefly for warm weather, and was furnished only
with a long white-scoured deal table, some heavy wooden
chairs, and an old cupboard. At the farther end, some boards
had been put up for shelves, and there cabbages lay in long
rows over red mounds of carrots and bristling bunches
of horse-radish. The outer door was wide open and showed
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