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“I promise, Gösta Berling.”
Then he wrung his hands in despair. He saw
before him the child’s cunning eyes, her little drawn
mouth and bony hands. She would receive protection
and be cared for, and the marks of neglect
would disappear from her body; the anger would be
wiped out of her soul. The paths to the forest were
closed to him.
“I will not kill myself while she is under your
care,” he said; “I knew you would compel me to
live. I felt that you would be too strong for me.”
“Gösta Berling,” she answered, solemnly, “I
have fought for you as for my own soul. I said to
God: ‘If there is anything of Margarita Celsing
within me, let her come forth and save this man,’
and He granted it. You felt her power, and could
not go. And it was whispered to me that you would
give up that terrible determination for the sake of
that poor child. Oh, you wild birds, you fly daringly,
but the Lord knows the net that will catch you!”
“He is a great and wonderful God,” said Gösta
Berling. “He has mocked me and rejected me, but
He will not let me die. His will be done.”
From that day, Gösta Berling became one of the
cavaliers of Ekeby. Twice he attempted to make a
living for himself. Once the Major’s wife gave him
a cottage and strip of land near Ekeby, and he tried
to live the life of a workman. It answered for a time,
but he grew weary of the loneliness and of the daily
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