15 (Gösta Berling's saga / Part II)

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home. She wept because she was so tired that she
could not reach the path she wished to strew with
roses. She wept because she thought she had come
too late. Then she saw a number of people running
quickly along the shore. They passed without
seeing her, but she caught their words.

“If the dam goes, the forge goes,” one cried.
“And the mill and the workshops and the
blacksmiths’ houses,” cried another.

Then the Countess gained new courage, rose, and
followed the men.

The forge and the mill at Ekeby lay upon a narrow
promontory, round which the Björksjö River
rushed. It thundered upon the point, white from
the mighty fall above, and to protect the buildings
on shore from the rush of the waters a gigantic
breakwater had been built. This breakwater had
grown old,and the cavaliers were masters at Ekeby;
in their days dancing went över the hills, but no
one took time to see what frost and time and tide
were doing to the old stone breakwater.

Then came the spring flood, and the dam began
to give way. The waterfall at Ekeby is a mighty
granite stairway, down which pour the waves of
the Björksjö River. They are giddy with the speed,
and tumble över and strike one another. They rise
in fury and dash spray over one another—stumble

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