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“Is ’t here?” said the first man, passing his fingers across
his neck.
“Hush!” replied the gamekeeper, frowning at the
questioner.
“Ef it’s me you’re talkin’ about,” said Sören, “don’t
set there an’ cackle, but say what you got to say.”
“Ay,” said the gamekeeper, laying great stress on the
word and looking at Sören with a serious air of making up
his mind. “Ay, Sören, it is you we’re talkin’ about. Good
Lord!” he folded his hands and seemed lost in dark
musings. “Sören,” he began, “"it’s a hangin’ matter what ye’re
doin’, and I give you warnin’”—he spoke as if reading
from a book—“mend your ways, Sören! There stands the
gallows and the block”—he pointed to the manor-house
—“and there a Christian life an’ a decent burial”—he
waved his hand in the direction of the stable. “For you must
answer with your neck, that’s the sacred word of the law,
ay, so it is, so it is, think o’ that!”
“Huh!” said Sören defiantly. “Who’ll have the law on
me?”
“Ay,” repeated the gamekeeper in a tone as if something
had been brought forward that made the situation very much
worse. “Who’ll have the law on you? Sören, Sören, who’ll
have the law on you? But devil split me, you’re a fool,”
he went on in a voice from which the solemnity had flown,
“an’ it’s fool’s play to be runnin’ after an old woman, when
there’s such a risk to it. If she’d been young! An’ such an
ill-tempered satan, too—let Blue-face keep her in peace,
there’s other women in the world besides her, Heaven be
praised.”
Sören had neither courage nor inclination to explain to
them that he could no longer live without Marie Grubbe.
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