289 (Gösta Berling's saga / Part I)

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As she tripped up the steps, she was met with
open arms. Her old rooms had been put in order.
Her companion, her maid, her footman, her forty
leather portmanteaux and her thirty hat-boxes, her
dressing-rolls, her shawls, and her furs were by
degrees brought into the house. There was bustle and
excitement from cellar to attic, a slamming of doors
and a running on the stairs. It was quite evident
that Countess Märta had arrived!

It was a beautiful spring evening, though only
April, and the ice in the lake had not yet broken
up. Mamselle Marie had opened her window and
was sitting in her room, picking her guitar and
singing. She was so absorbed in her music and her
memories that she did not notice that a carriage had
drawn up at the door of the cottage. In the carriage
sat Countess Märta, who was highly amused
at the sight of Mamselle Marie seated at the
window, hugging her guitar and, with eyes turned
heavenward, singing old, long-forgotten love-ditties.

Presently the Countess got out of her carriage
and went into the cottage, where the girls sat as
usual at the quilting-frame. She was never haughty:
the winds of the Revolution had swept over her
and blown fresh air into her lungs.

It was not her fault that she was a Countess, she
used to say; but at all events she would live the

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