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Jenny said nothing. Gram sometimes used expressions that
were rather too sentimental, she thought, although she knew
that the bitter feelings which dictated them were real enough.
In a sudden impulse she bent forward and stroked his grey
hair.
Gram bowed his head as if to prolong the slight caress —
and without looking at her, untied the portfolio with trembling
hands.
She realized in surprise that her own hands shook as she
took the first sheet from him, and she felt a strange fear and
oppression at heart, as of a danger threatening. She was
suddenly afraid when she realized that she did not want anybody
to know of her visit and that she dared not tell Helge about it.
At the mere thought of her lover she became depressed; she had
long since consciously stopped analysing her real feelings for
him. She did not want to heed the foreboding that crossed
her mind at this moment, not to let herself be disturbed by
inquiring into Gert Gram’s feelings for her.
She turned over the sheets of the portfolio with the dreams
of his youth; it was a melancholy business. He had told her
about this work often when they were alone, and she understood
that he thought he had been born an artist for the sake of this
and nothing else. The pictures hanging in his home he called
the amateur work of a conscientious and diligent pupil, but
these — they were his own. They were illustrations to
Landstad’s Folksongs.
At first sight these big sheets with frames of Roman foliage
and ornate black-letter writing were good enough. The
colouring was pure and effective in most of them, in some really fine,
but the figures in the vignettes and borders were without style
and life, although the miniature drawings were correct in every
detail. Some of them were naturalistic, others approaching
Italian mediaeval art to such an extent that Jenny recognized
certain Annunciation angels and madonnas in the cloaks of
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