102 (Gösta Berling's saga / Part I)

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When his voice died away, Marienne came out
upon the balcony dressed in black velvet and a lace
veil. She leaned over the rail and sang slowly and
ironically:

“Why do you stand, you holy man,
At midnight time, ’math my lattice high,
Say, do you pray for my soul?”

Then quickly, and with feeling:

“Nay, fly,—I pray;
They may find you here.
And your sword doth betray,
And the clank of your spur,
That the hooded monk is a fair cavalier"”

At these words the monk threw aside his disguise,
and Gösta Berling stood under the balcony in a
Don’s dress of silk and gold. He paid no heed to the
beauty’s warning. On the contrary, he climbed one
of the balcony pillars, swung himself over the
balustrade, and, as Squire Julius had arranged, fell at
the feet of the lovely Marienne.

She smiled graciously upon him and gave him
her hand to kiss, and as they gazed at each other,
lost in love, the curtain descended.

No one at Ekeby had ever seen anything lovelier
than those two on that moonlit balcony. The
curtain had to be drawn up again and again. It was

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