217 (Gösta Berling's saga / Part II)

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they shouted and thundered; yet the cavaliers kept
their tempers.

“Wait a bit,” they said; “wait a minute. See,
Ekeby is open to you. The cellars are open and the
storehouses and the dairy. Your wives are fainting
with fatigue, and your children are crying. Let us
first give them something to eat. Afterwards you
can kill us. We won’t run away. But we have garrets
full of apples; let us bring you some apples for
the children!”

An hour later, the feast was in full swing at Ekeby.
The biggest feast ever celebrated on the big estate
took place that autumn night by the light of a
shining full moon.

Armfuls of wood from the woodpile had been
lighted, and the whole courtyard had been
illuminated by bonfires. The people sat about in groups
enjoying the warmth and the rest, while the good
things of earth were spread before them.

Determined men had gone into the farmyard and
taken what they desired. Calves and sheep had been
killed and even some of the larger cattle, and they
had been cut up and cooked in a handturn. Those
hungry hundreds devoured the meat, and one beast
after another was led out and slaughtered, till it
seemed as though the whole cattle-shed would be
emptied in one night.

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