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He strained every nerve to keep the gaiety and
laughter going, for it was by gaiety and laughter that
the honor of Ekeby was to be saved. How was the
game to be theirs, if they played it with troubled
faces and discouraged hearts?
If it is true what report said, that the cavaliers
had more sand than iron in their barges—if it is
true that they carried the same bars backward and
forward to the scales at Kanikenäset, till the many
hundred tons were weighed out—if it is true that
this could be done because the manager there and
his people were feasted so well from the provisions
and wine-baskets brought from Ekeby—you can
easily imagine, then, that the time went gaily on the
iron barges.
Who can tell? But if this was the case, it is
certain that Gösta Berling had no time to suffer. He
knew little now of the joy of adventure, and as
soon as he dared he sank down in despair.
“Oh, Ekeby, my land of delight!” he then cried,
“let thy honor shine clear!”
As soon as the cavaliers received the quittance
from the manager of the weigh-scales they loaded
their iron into a Vänern sloop. It was usual that
the shipowners undertook the delivery of goods
down to Göteborg, and the Värmland proprietors
had no further trouble about their iron after they
had received the quittance that the delivery was
correct. But the cavaliers refused to do their work
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