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you love your beloved, let your conscience burn
and chafe within you, but show yourself a man and
a Värmlander. Let your glances beam with joy, and
meet your friends with a gay word on your lips!
Life and nature are hard. They bring forth
courage and joy as a counterweight against their own
hardness, or no one could endure them.
“Courage and joy! It seems as if these were the
first two duties of life. You have never failed them
before, you will not fail them now.
“Are you worse than Lövenborg, who sits there
at his piano, or than any of the other cavaliers—those
courageous, happy, ever youthful men? You
know well that none of them has escaped suffering.”
And then Gösta glanced round at them. Oh,
what a sight ! They were all sitting seriously
listening to the music which nobody heard.
Suddenly Lövenborg was startled from his
dreams by a gay laugh. He lifted his hands from
the keyboard and listened with rapture. It was
Gösta’s old laugh, his kindly infectious laugh. It was
the loveliest music he had heard in all his life.
“Did I not say that Beethoven would help you,
Gösta?” he cried. “You are all right again.”
Thus did the Lady Musica cure Gösta Berling.
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