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The Auction at Björne
We young people must often wonder at the
stories told us by our elders. “Did you dance
every night as long as your beautiful youth lasted?”
“Was life for you one long adventure?” we asked
them. “Were all girls lovely and amiable in those
days, and did Gösta Berling elope with one of them
after every ball?”
Then the old people shook their heads and told
of the whirling of the spinning-wheels and the boom
of the looms, of cooking, of the thunder and crash
in the track of the axe through the forests; but
before long they harked back again to the old
stories. Sledges drove up to the hall door and raced
through the dark woods with their load of gay young
people, the dancing grew wild, and the violin strings
snapped. The wild wave of adventure rushed
tumultuously along the shores of Lake Löfven,
and its noise was heard afar. The forests swerved
and fell, all the powers of destruction were loose,
flames flared, the rapids swept away their prey, and
wild beasts prowled hungrily round the homesteads.
Under the hoofs of the eight-footed horses all
quiet happiness was trampled in the dust. And wherever
the wild hunt passed, men’s hearts flamed up
tempestuously, and the women fled from their homes
in pale dismay. And we sat wondering, silent,
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