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730 [Doc. 292.
ANECDOTES AND MISCELLANIES.
house of this heathen, who did not believe in Christ, for so
they said. At last Andersson noticed that I no longer ate
or drank, and wanted to know the cause, and begged so
hard that I told him all. Yes, Andersson is a good man,
and he always believes me rather than himself; and so he also
began to worry."
"But if I should tell the whole story in her words," said
Danieli, "it would make it too long: and so I shall relate more
briefly what happened. "
One day the old man and the old woman, the modest
gardener-folks, dressed in their holiday suits, entered Sweden
borg’s silent study, the room with the brown panel-paint
ings, the gable windows, and a view out on the lilac-bushes.
Swedenborg sat with his head resting upon both hands, poring
over a large book. Astonished at the unusual noise, he raised
his head and looked towards the door. There stood the good
gardener-folks, though but the middle of the week, both dressed
in their holiday clothes, bowing and courtesying. On Sweden
borg’s grave but cheerful countenance there played an inquiring
smile.
"Why dressed up so, Andersson and Margaret ?" he said.
"What do you want?"
This was not in truth easy to say, and instead of an answer,
Margaret began to cry, and her husband crushed his hat into
a thousand wrinkles, and in his heart wished himself more
than a thousand miles away.
"Is there any care that lies upon your heart; any
distress which has suddenly come over you ?" said Sweden
borg; "then speak out plainly, and, with God’s help, it will all
go well again."
"Yes," at last said the old gardener, "yes, we wish to leave
the assessor’s service. "
Swedenborg seemed surprised. "Leave me ; and why? "
he asked, with his penetrating, friendly look, which pierced
them to their very heart ; " I thought as we were growing old
together, we should to our very end remain faithful to one
another, and never separate in this life. "
"Yes, so also we thought ourselves," burst out the housewife,
almost overcome with tears; "for thirty years we have served
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