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loved her faithfully for forty years would probably
be a murderer.
“Am I also to forgive?” she said. “Are you not
the cause of all this trouble, Kristian Bergh? Go to
the cavaliers and rejoice at your work!”
And so she left them. She went calmly, leaving
terror behind her; she fell, but she was not without
greatness in her fall. She did not stoop to weak
repining, but even in her old age she rejoiced in the
love of her youth. She did not stoop to wailing and
tears when she left all behind her, and did not shrink
from wandering through the land with a beggar’s
scrip and staff. She mourned over the poor and the
happy, careless people on the banks of the Löfven,
over the cavaliers, and all those whom she had
protected and guarded. Deserted by every one, she had
still strength to turn aside from her last friend, so
as not to condemn him to being a murderer.
She was a powerful woman, great in strength
of will and mighty in government. We shall hardly
see another like her.
Next day Major Samzelius broke up his home
at Ekeby, and moved to his own house at Sjö, which
lies quite near the great foundry.
It had been plainly stated in Altringer’s will, by
which the Major had received the huge property of
the seven foundries, that none of them were to be
sold or given away, but after the death of the Major
they were to pass to his wife and her heirs. As,
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