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Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Lillie Tudeer
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Through white lips Gösta whispered, “Ferdinand.”

She silenced him with a kiss.

“He is nothing—no one exists but you. I shall
be faithful to you alone.”

“I am Gösta Berling,” he answered, gloomily;
“you cannot marry me.”

“It is you I love—you, the noblest of men. You
need do nothing, be nothing, you are born a king.”

The poet’s blood in him surged. She was so
enchanting in her love, he clasped her in his arms.

“If you will be mine, Anna, you cannot stay at
the parsonage. Let me carry you away to-night to
Ekeby, and I will guard you there till we can be
married.”

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It was a wild drive through the night. Prompted
by the voice of their love they let Don Juan carry
them away. The creaking of the sledge runners
might have been the cries of their deceived friends,
what cared they? She clung to him, and he bent
down and whispered in her ear, “Can any bliss be
likened to stolen happiness?”

Who thought of the banns—they had love—and
of the anger of their friends? Gösta Berling
believed in fate. Fate had mastered them—no one
could fight against fate.

If the stars had been the wax candles lighted for

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