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In fact, he was almost ashamed of his foolish passion, and
he knew that if he confessed the truth, it would only mean
that the whole pack of men and maids would hound him,
so he lied and denied his love.
“’T is a wise way you’re pointin’, but look ’ee here,
folks, I’ve got a rix-dollar when you haven’t any, an’ I’ve
got a bit of clothes an’ another bit an’ a whole wagon-load,
my dear friends, and once I get my purse full, I’ll run away
just as quiet, an’ then one o’ you can try your luck.”
“All well an’ good,” answered Sören Gamekeeper, “but
it’s stealin’ money with your neck in a noose, I say. It’s all
very fine to have clothes and silver given you for a gift, an’
most agreeable to lie in bed here an’ say you’re sick an’ get
wine an’ roasted meat an’ all kinds o’ belly-cheer sent down,
but it won’t go long here with so many people round. It ’ll
get out some day, an’ then you’re sure o’ the worst that can
befall any one.”
“Oh, they won’t let things come to such a pass,” said
Sören, a little crestfallen.
“Well, they’d both like to get rid o’ her, and her sisters
and her brothers-in-law are not the kind o’ folks who’d
stand between, if there’s a chance o’ getting her
disinherited.”
“O jeminy, she’d help me.”
“You think so? She may ha’ all she can do helpin’
herself; she’s been in trouble too often fer any one to help her
wi’ so much as a bucket o’ oats.”
“Hey-day,” said Sören, making for the inner chamber,
“a threatened man may live long.”
From that day on, Sören was pursued by hints of the
gallows and the block and the red-hot pincers wherever
he went. The consequence was that he tried to drive away
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