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suspicious, sly, dishonest, and stingy. In his later days he
always had the name of God on his lips, especially when
the harvest was poor or the cattle were sick, and he would
address the Lord with a host of cringing, fawning names
of his own invention. It was impossible that Marie should
either love or respect him, and besides she had a particular
grudge against him, because he had persuaded her to marry
Palle Dyre by dint of promises that were never fulfilled and
by threats of disinheriting her, turning her out of Tjele, and
withdrawing all support from her. In fact, her chief motive
for the change had been her hope of making herself
independent of the paternal authority, though this hope was
frustrated; for Palle Dyre and Erik Grubbe had agreed to
work the farms of Tjele and Nörbæk—which latter was
given Marie as a dower on certain conditions—together,
and as Tjele was the larger of the two, and Erik Grubbe
no longer had the strength to look after it, Marie and her
husband spent more time under her father’s roof than under
their own.
Palle Dyre was the son of Colonel Clavs Dyre of
Sandvig and Krogsdal, later of Vinge, and his wife Edele
Pallesdaughter Rodtsteen. He was a thickset, shortnecked little
man, brisk in all his motions and with a rather forceful face,
which, however, was somewhat marred by a hemorrhage
in the lungs that had affected his right cheek.
Marie despised him. He was as stingy and greedy as Erik
Grubbe himself. Yet he was really a man of some ability,
sensible, energetic, and courageous, but he simply lacked
any sense of honor whatever. He would cheat and lie
whenever he had a chance, and was never in the least abashed
when found out. He would allow himself to be abused like
a dog and never answer back, if silence could bring him
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