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She must hurry, it would take her an hour to get
back.
When the Lady of Ekeby had said farewell to
her home, she went down to the courtyard, and the
strife round the cavaliers’ wing began.
She placed the people round the tall, narrow
building, the second story of which was famous as
being the home of the cavaliers. In the biggest room
there, with its plaster walls and the large chests
painted red and the enormous folding-table where
the cards were swimming about in the spilt wine,
on the wide beds, hidden behind the yellow-striped
curtains, slept the cavaliers.
And in the stables before their full mangers slept
the cavaliers’ horses, and dreamed of their youthful
exploits. How happy in those restful days to dream
of the wild feats of their youth! of their journeys to
the horse-market, where they stood day and night
under the open sky; of sharp canters from early
service on Christmas morning; of trial races before
exchanging owners, when drunken men, amid a rain
of cutting blows, leaned far out of their vehicles, and
swore fiercely in their ears. Happy so to dream,
when they know they will never leave the full
mangers and the warm stalls of Ekeby!
In the old coach-house, where the broken chaises
and discarded sledges are placed, there is a
wonderful assemblage of old vehicles. There are small
handsledges and ice-hilling sledges painted in green and
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