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The Paths of Life
Dreary are the paths which men must tread
on earth, through desert and marsh and over
the hills. Why must so much sorrow go uncomforted,
till it loses its way in the desert, or sinks into
the marsh, or stumbles from the hills? Where are
the fairy princesses in whose footsteps roses spring?
Where are they who should strew flowers over the
dreary way?
Now, the poet Gösta Berling has determined
to get married. He is only seeking a bride poor
enough, lowly enough, and sufficiently an outcast to
be a fit mate for a crazy parson. Noble and beautiful
women have loved him, but they are not to compete
for his hand. The outcast will choose among
the outcasts. Whom will he choose, whom will he
seek out?
Sometimes there came to Ekeby a poor girl selling
brooms, from a desolate village up among the
hills. There, where poverty and misery ever reigned,
many of the people were not in the full possession of
their faculties, and the broom girl was one of them.
But she was beautiful. Her thick black hair was
bound in such heavy plaits her head could hardly
carry them; her cheeks were delicately rounded, her
nose was straight and not too large, her eyes were
blue. She had a melancholy, Madonna-like type of
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