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(1895) Author: Anne Charlotte Leffler, Sofja Kovalevskaja Translator: Louise von Cossel
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fair hair, were very suitable for a noble damsel
of the middle ages. There she would sit in her
tower, bending over her frame and embroidering
the family coat of arms in beads and gold
thread, now and then casting glances down the
road looking out for the hero of her dreams.

‘Sœur Anne, sœur Anne, ne vois-tu rien venir?
Je ne vois que la terre qui poudroit et l’herbe qui verdoit?’


However, instead of the expected knight, she
only sees the Ispravnik and some excise-officers,
or an old Jew who comes to buy cattle
or whisky at Palibino.

At last, ‘soeur Anne’ got tired of waiting for
her hero, and her romantic fit passed as suddenly
as it had begun.

One day a very sentimental book, ‘Harold,’
by Bulwer Lytton, fell into her hands. The story
runs thus:—

After the battle of Hastings, Edith finds
the dead body of her lover, King Harold,
among those slain on the battle-field. Shortly
before his death he had committed perjury, and
he died without time for repentance; so his soul
is condemned to eternal punishment.

From that day Edith disappears; nobody ever

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