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to overcome such an aversion, so that if one had the virtue
and principles of an angel, yet this natural aversion would
be stronger. On the other hand, my poor present husband
woke in me such instant and unlooked-for inclination that
I could ascribe it to nothing but a natural attraction, which
it would be vain to resist.”
“Ha! That were surely well reasoned! Then we have
but to pack all morality into a strong chest and send it to
Hekkenfell, and live on according to the desires of our
hearts, for then there is no lewdness to be named but we
can dress it up as a natural and irresistible attraction, and
in the same manner there is not one of all the virtues
but we can easily escape from the exercise of it; for one
may have an aversion for sobriety, one for honesty, one
for modesty, and such a natural aversion, he would say, is
quite irresistible, so one who feels it is quite innocent. But
you have altogether too clear an understanding, goodwife,
not to know that all this is naught but wicked conceits
and bedlam talk.”
Marie made no answer.
“But do you not believe in God, goodwife,” Master
Holberg went on, “and in the life everlasting?”
“Ay, God be praised, I do. I believe in our Lord.”
“But eternal punishment and eternal reward, good-wife?”
“I believe every human being lives his own life and
dies his own death, that is what I believe.”
“But that is no faith; do you believe we shall rise again
from the dead?”
“How shall I rise? As the young innocent child I was
when I first came out among people, or as the honored and
envied favorite of the King and the ornament of the court,
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