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self-control; but so great was her sorrow that she
could not retain her love for her husband, that she
would probably have allowed Countess Märta to
torture her to death, if one evening the old
housekeeper had not spoken to her.
“The Countess should tell the Count. What a
child you are! Good God! perhaps you do not know
yourself what you have to expect; but I see, of
course, what is the matter.” But it was just this that
she could not speak about to her husband, while
he cherished such hard suspicions about her.
That night she dressed herself quietly and left
the house. She was clad in the usual peasant girl’s
dress, and had a small bundle in her hands. She
intended to leave her home and never to return.
It was not to escape the torment and the suffering,
but she believed now that God had given her
a sign, and that she had permission to go that she
might husband her strength and health.
She did not turn to the west over the lake, for
there lived the man she loved so much. Neither
did she go north, for there dwelt many of her
friends; nor south, for far, far in the south lay her
father’s home, and she did not wish to approach a
step nearer it. But she went east, for there she had
neither home nor loved friends; she knew no one,
and there was neither help nor comfort there. She
did not go with a light heart, for she did not feel
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