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every day! But he could not come; he has been building
skittle-alleys and summer-houses at Ekeby.”
Then Gösta Berling suddenly perceived what he
had to expect from this journey.
He went further north to Björnidet. It also had
a beautiful and practical site, befitting a castle. The
chief building commanded a crescent-shaped valley,
which was surrounded on three sides by mighty
hills, and on the fourth by the Löfven, which here
has its source. And Gösta knew well that there was
no better place for moonlight promenades and
love-making than that long walk beside the shore, past
the waterfall, down to the foundry, which was built
between huge arches blasted out of the rock itself.
But iron, was there any iron? No, of course not!
They had no coal, and they were unable to get the
money from Ekeby to pay the coal-breakers and
carters. Work on the place had been standing still
all winter.
Then Gösta turned southward again. He went
to Hån on the east side of the Löfven, and to
Löfstafors, far in the deep forest, but matters were
no better there. There was no iron anywhere, and
it seemed this was the fault of the cavaliers.
So Gösta returned to Ekeby, and the cavaliers
gloomily considered the fifty tons or so which lay
in the stores, and their heads were heavy with grief,
for they heard all nature sneering at Ekeby, and
it seemed to them that the ground trembled with
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