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The Old Carriages
Friends, if it should happen that you read
this at night, as I write it, you must not draw a
breath of relief and imagine that the good cavaliers
were allowed to sleep undisturbed, after they arrived
home with Marienne, and had arranged a comfortable
bed for her in the best guest-chamber, opening
out of the grand salon.
They went to bed, and they went to sleep; but
theirs was not the good fortune to sleep in peace
and quietness till midday, as it might have been
ours, dear reader, if we had been up till four o’clock
and our limbs ached wearily.
It must be remembered that during that time the
Lady of Ekeby was wandering about the country
with a beggar’s scrip and staff, and that it never had
been her way, when there was anything to be done,
to wait for the convenience of tired wrong-doers.
She was never less likely to do so than on that night,
for she had determined to turn the cavaliers out of
Ekeby.
The time was past and gone when she sat in
splendor and might at Ekeby, and sowed joy over the
earth as God sows the stars over the sky. And while
she wandered homeless over the country, the honor
and glory of the great estate lay in the hands of the
cavaliers, to be guarded by them as the wind guards
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