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“Have you never heard that once I was the beautiful
Margarita Celsing? It was n’t quite yesterday,
but even yet I can weep my old eyes red when I
think of her. Why is Margarita Celsing dead—and
Margarita Samzelius living? Why should the
Major’s wife at Ekeby be alive, Gösta Berling?
“Do you know what Margarita Celsing was
like? She was tall and slight and gentle, and knew
no evil; she was a girl over whose grave the angels
wept. She knew no evil, she knew no sorrow, and
she was good to all. And she was beautiful, really
beautiful.
“And there lived a splendid man in those days—his
name was Altringer. God alone knows how
he found his way up to the lonely foundry in the
wilderness where Margarita lived with her parents.
Margarita saw him—he was a splendid man—and
he loved her.
“But he was poor; so they determined to wait
for five years, as they do in the ballads.
“But when three years had passed, another man
wanted her. He was ugly and wicked, but her
parents believed him to be rich; and they forced
Margarita, by fair means and foul, by blows and hard
words, to take him as her husband. That day Margarita
Celsing died. Since then, there only exists
Major Samzelius’ wife, and she is neither good
nor gentle, she knows much evil, and thinks little
of the good. I suppose you have heard what
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