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the ash-heap and the spring sunshine cherishes the
snowdrifts.
Sometimes it happened that the cavaliers drove
out six or eight together in their long sledge,
tandem, with sleigh-bells and flowing reins, and if they
met the Major’s wife they did not hang their heads.
The noisy party stretched out clenched fists at her;
a sudden turn of the sledge obliged her to plunge
deep into the snowdrifts, and Major Fuchs, the
great bear hunter, always thought it necessary to
spit three times as a safeguard against the evil omen
of such a meeting.
They had no pity for her. She was to them awitch,
as she went about the roadways, and if misfortune
had overtaken her, they would have cared no more
than he who on Easter Eve fires off his gun and
hits a witch flying past on her broomstick.
It had become a matter of conscience with them,
poor cavaliers, to persecute the Major’s wife. People
so often have been cruel and have persecuted one
another pitilessly in trying to save their own souls.
When, late at night, the cavaliers turned from the
drinking-table to the window, to see if the night
was calm and starlit, they often saw a dark shadow
glide over the courtyard, and they knew that the
Lady of Ekeby had come to look again at her dear
house, and then the cavaliers’ wing shook with the
scornful shouts of the old sinners, and mocking
words were thrown at her from the open window.
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