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not until a fortnight later did Sören venture to visit
Nörbæk one night, and to rap on Marie’s chamber window. His
first question, when Marie opened it, was whether Anne
was dead, and it seemed to relieve his mind of a heavy
burden when he heard that she had quite recovered. He
lived in a deserted house on Gassum heath and often came
again to get money and food. The servants as well as Palle
Dyre knew that he was in the habit of visiting the house,
but Palle took no notice, and the servants did not trouble
themselves in the matter, when they saw the master was
indifferent.
At haymaking time, the master and mistress moved back
to Tjele, where Sören did not dare to show himself. His
absence, added to her father’s taunts and petty
persecution, irritated and angered Marie, until she gave her feelings
vent by scolding Erik Grubbe, in private, two or three
times, as if he had been her foot-boy. The result was that,
in the middle of August, Erik Grubbe sent a letter of
complaint to the King. After recounting at great length all her
misdeeds, which were a sin against God, a scandal before
men, and an offence to all womanhood, he ended the epistle
saying:
Whereas she hath thus grievously disobeyed and
misconducted herself, I am under the necessity of disinheriting
her, and I do humbly beseech Your Royal Majesty that You
will graciously be pleased to ratify and confirm this my
action, and that Your Royal Majesty will furthermore be
pleased to issue Your most gracious command to Governor
Mogens Scheel, that he may make inquiry concerning her
aforesaid behavior toward me and toward her husband,
and that because of her wickedness, she be confined at
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