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the women had a wound in her hand. She began
at once to nurse them. She was soon on good terms
with the chattering women, and let them show her
their babies. The men came back in an hour, and
brought Gösta Berling, bound, into the hut. They
laid him down on the floor before the fire. His
clothes were torn and dirty, his face looked thin
and his eyes wild. He had gone through much in
those days; he had slept on the damp earth, he
had buried his face and hands in the turf, dragged
himself over rocky ridges, and pushed through the
closest thickets. He had not followed the men
voluntarily; they had overpowered and bound him.
When his wife saw him thus, she was very angry.
She did not unbind his hands, but let him lie on
the floor. She turned scornfully away from him.
“How dreadful you look!” she said.
“I had no intention of appearing before your
eyes again,” he answered.
“Am I not your wife? Is it not my right to expect
you to come to me in your trouble? I have waited
for you with great anxiety these two days.”
“I have been the cause of Captain Lennert’s
misfortune. How could I dare to show myself before
you? How could I?”
“You were seldom afraid, Gösta.”
“The only service that I can do you, Elizabeth,
is to set you at liberty.”
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