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feared it would be her death, but her baby was in
greater danger than she was; it might die any
moment, and it had not been christened.
The great sin which had driven her from her
home had passed away. She certainly had no love
for any one but the baby which had no father.
No duty could be too trying, if it put matters right
again for the child.
She called the farmer and his wife and told them
her story. The man set off at once to Borg to tell
Count Dohna that his Countess was alive, and that
a child was born and needed a father’s care.
He came back late in the evening. He had not
seen the Count, for he was abroad, but he had been
to see the curate at Svartsjö and talked to him
about it.
Then Countess Elizabeth learned that her marriage
had been pronounced illegal, and that she no
longer had a husband.
The curate had written a kind letter to her and
invited her to make his house her home.
A letter from her own father to Count Henrik,
which must have arrived at Borg a few days after her
flight, was also forwarded to her. In that letter the
old man begged the Count to hasten the legalization
of the marriage, and that had probably shown
the Count the easiest way of getting rid of his wife.
You can imagine Countess Elizabeth was more
angry than grieved when she heard the farmer’s tale.
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