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rich! Do not lay such duties upon me! Don’t
separate me from the people!”
“I will give Ekeby to you and the other cavaliers,”
repeated the Major’s wife. “You are a
trustworthy man, Gösta, whom the people bless. I say
as my mother said, ‘You can take this work upon
you.’”
“No, my lady, we cannot accept it—we who
have suspected you and caused you such sorrow.”
“I will give you Ekeby, do you hear?”
She spoke severely, harshly, without a trace of
kindness. He was seized with dismay.
“Do not put such temptation in the way of the
old men! It will make them sluggards and drunkards
again! God of Heaven!—rich cavaliers! What
would become of us?”
“I will give you Ekeby, Gösta, but you must
promise then to give your wife her liberty again.
You know such a refined little creature is not fit
for such as you. She has already suffered too much
in the bear-country. She longs for her own bright
fatherland. You must let her go. That is the reason
I give you Ekeby.”
But at this Countess Elizabeth came forward and
knelt beside the bed. “I don’t long any more for
my own country. The man who is my husband has
solved the problem and found for me the life which
I can live. No longer need I go cold and hard
beside him to remind him of repentance and penance.
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