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“What do you want?” she asked.
Beerencreutz answered. “We came here with your
husband.”
They pushed Captain Lennert forward, and she
saw him stand swaying toward her, drunk, with the
face of a villain. And behind him stood that group
of intoxicated reeling figures.
She stepped back, and he advanced with open
arms.
“You went like a thief,” she exclaimed, “and
come home like a vagabond.” And she turned to
go in.
He did not understand, and tried to follow her,
but then she gave him a backward thrust on the
breast.
“Do you think I will take a man like you to be
master over my house and my children?”
The door slammed, and the bar fell into its place.
Captain Lennert sprang at the door and began
to shake it. Then the cavaliers could not restrain
their mirth. He had been so sure of his wife, and
now she would have nothing to do with him. They
thought it was so ridiculous.
When Captain Lennert heard them laugh, he
turned and wanted to fight them. They sprang aside
and climbed into their cart. He rushed after them,
but stumbled over a stone and fell headlong, and
though he got up, he did not follow them any
further. A thought struck his confused mind. Nothing
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