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The Pastor
THE pastor was mounting the pulpit steps.
The bowed heads of the congregation
rose—he was there, then, after all, and there
would be service that Sunday, though for many
Sundays there had been none.
How tall and slight and how strikingly beautiful
he was! In helmet and coat of mail he might have
stood as model for a statue of an ancient Athenian.
He had the unfathomable eyes of a poet, but the
lower part of his face was that of a conqueror, his
whole being was instinct with genius and refinement
and warm poetic feeling, and the congregation were
awed to see him thus.
They had grown accustomed to see him staggering
out of the tavern, with his boon companions,
Colonel Beerencreutz and Kristian Bergh, “the
strong captain."
He had been drinking so heavily that for several
weeks he had been unable to perform the duties of
his office, and the parish had been forced to lodge
a complaint against him, first to the rector, and then
to the Bishop and Council. The Bishop had come
to investigate the matter and was sitting in the choir,
wearing his gold cross of office upon his breast, and
was surrounded by the clergy from Karlstad and
from the immediate parishes.
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