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She is to be tried very soon, and they brought her
here to-day. We could not put her into the wretched
jail at the courthouse, so she was given the
weaving-room in the side wing. She would have been
in my drawing-room, Countess, if all these people
had n’t come to-day. You know her so slightly, but
she has been like a mother and queen to us all.
What will she think of us dancing here while she
is in such trouble? It is a mercy that only a few
know she is here.”
“She ought never to have been arrested,” said
the Countess, sternly.
“That is true, but there was no other way, unless
worse were to happen. There is no one who would
deny her right to setting her own strawstacks on
fire and turning the cavaliers out of Ekeby, but
the Major is hunting the country for her. God alone
knows what he might have done if she had n’t been
arrested! Schärling has had much unpleasantness
for arresting her. Even in Karlstad they were angry
that he had not looked through his fingers at the
doings at Ekeby, but he did what he thought was
best.”
“But will she be condemned now?” asked the
Countess.
“Oh, no, Countess, she won’t.The Lady of Ekeby
will never be found guilty, but I am afraid it will
all be too much for her. She will go mad. You can
imagine such a proud woman cannot bear being
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