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Author: Selma Lagerlöf Translator: Lillie Tudeer
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The blood surged in Gösta’s head. What did she
wish? What did she want of him?

“Come here, Gösta,” she said, and stretched out
her hand to him. “You are not to be angry with me
about what I say, but I thought you, who are—who
are—”

“A discharged clergyman, a drinking champion,
a cavalier, Ebba Dohna’s murderer, I know all my
merit list—”

“Are you already angry, Gösta?”

“I would rather you did n’t say anything more.”

But the baby’s mother continued: “There are
many, Gösta, who would have wished to be your
wife for love’s sake, but it is not so with me. If I
loved you, I should not dare to speak as I do now.
For my own sake I should not ask for it, Gösta,
but you see the child must have a father. You
understand now what I am going to ask you to do.
It is, I know, a great degradation for you, as I am
an unmarried woman who has a child. I did not
think you might do it because you were worse than
others are, though, yes, I thought of that too. But
I thought you might do it because you are so kind,
Gösta; because you are a hero, and can sacrifice
yourself. But perhaps it is too much to ask. It may
be impossible for a man. If you despise me too
much, if it is too distasteful to you to be spoken
of as the father of another man’s child, then tell me
so! I shall not be angry. I understand I am asking

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