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crime they had come upon? Why was the young
Countess here at Ekeby? Why had people said she
was far away or dead? In the name of justice, ought
they not to turn upon the cavaliers and trample
them to death under their iron-shod shoes?
A voice was heard far and wide. Gösta Berling
had mounted the balustrade of the stairs and was
speaking from there.
“Hear me, you beasts, you devils! Do you
think there are no guns and no powder in Ekeby,
you madmen! Don’t you think I had the wish to
shoot you down like mad dogs, but she begged
us to spare you. Oh, if I had known you would
touch her, there is not one of you would be alive
now.
“What do you mean by this disturbance
to-night, and by coming upon us like thieves and
robbers and threatening us with fire and murder? What
have I to do with your crazy lassies? How should
I know where they wander? I have been too kind
to her, that is all the trouble. I ought to have set
the dogs on her—it would have been best for us
both, but I did not do it. And I never promised to
marry her—I never did. Remember that!
“But now I say to you that you must release her
whom you dragged out of this house. Release her,
I say; and may the hands that have touched her
burn in everlasting fire! Don’t you think that she
is as much above you as the heaven is above the
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