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diff --git a/41414-h/41414-h.htm b/41414-h/41414-h.htm index 7a32de5..0cbfd08 100644 --- a/41414-h/41414-h.htm +++ b/41414-h/41414-h.htm @@ -4,10 +4,10 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> - The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Girl From The Marsh Croft, by Selma Lagerlöf. + The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Girl From The Marsh Croft, by Selma Lagerlöf. </title> <style type="text/css"> @@ -172,47 +172,7 @@ table { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -Project Gutenberg's The Girl From the Marsh Croft, by Selma Lagerlöf - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Girl From the Marsh Croft - -Author: Selma Lagerlöf - -Translator: Velma Swanston Howard - -Release Date: November 20, 2012 [EBook #41414] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIRL FROM THE MARSH CROFT *** - - - - -Produced by sp1nd, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41414 ***</div> <div class="figcenter"> <img src="images/tp.jpg" alt=""/> @@ -222,9 +182,9 @@ Internet Archive) <h1>The Girl From the Marsh Croft</h1> -<h2>By Selma Lagerlöf</h2> +<h2>By Selma Lagerlöf</h2> -<h3>Author of "The Story of Gösta Berling," "The Miracles of Antichrist," +<h3>Author of "The Story of Gösta Berling," "The Miracles of Antichrist," "Invisible Links," etc.</h3> @@ -247,19 +207,19 @@ translation into foreign languages.</i></p> <h2>PREFATORY NOTE</h2> -<p>Readers of Miss Lagerlöf will observe that in this, her latest book, +<p>Readers of Miss Lagerlöf will observe that in this, her latest book, "The Girl from the Marsh Croft," the Swedish author has abandoned her former world of Romanticism and has entered the field of Naturalism and Realism.</p> <p>This writer's romantic style is most marked, perhaps, in her first -successful work, "Gösta Berling."</p> +successful work, "Gösta Berling."</p> -<p>How "The Story of Gösta Berling" grew, and the years required to perfect +<p>How "The Story of Gösta Berling" grew, and the years required to perfect it, is told in the author's unique literary autobiography, "The Story of a Story," which is embodied in the present volume.</p> -<p>In "The Girl from the Marsh Croft" Miss Lagerlöf has courageously chosen +<p>In "The Girl from the Marsh Croft" Miss Lagerlöf has courageously chosen a girl who had gone astray as the heroine of her love story, making her innate honesty and goodness the redemptive qualities which win for her the love of an honest man and the respect and esteem of all.</p> @@ -269,7 +229,7 @@ for permission to include "The Legend of the Christmas Rose" in this volume.</p> <p>This book is translated and published with the sanction of the author, -Selma Lagerlöf.</p> +Selma Lagerlöf.</p> @@ -646,7 +606,7 @@ out.</p> <p>"Where?" asked Gudmund hastily.</p> <p>He thought it was a long while before the answer was forthcoming. "At -the West Farm, with Per Mårtensson," she said finally, sinking her voice +the West Farm, with Per MÃ¥rtensson," she said finally, sinking her voice as if she would rather not have been heard.</p> <p>But Gudmund heard her. "Indeed! Then it is you who—" said he, but did @@ -846,7 +806,7 @@ It was evident that some new misgivings had come to her, which hindered her from coming to a decision.</p> <p>Then Gudmund told her of how he had found a pretext for calling at the -Juryman's at Älvåkra and had met Hildur. He mentioned what she had said +Juryman's at ÄlvÃ¥kra and had met Hildur. He mentioned what she had said of the horse and wagon, and it was easily seen that he was pleased with the meeting. His mother was also very much pleased. Where she sat in the cottage, unable to move from her chair, it was her constant occupation @@ -903,7 +863,7 @@ dark in the woodshed, and she knew that he could not see her.</p> keep back the sobs. She had not as yet gone into the cabin to see her parents. She hadn't had the courage to go in. When she trudged up the steep hill in the twilight and thought of how she must tell her parents -that she was not to receive any assistance from Per Mårtensson in the +that she was not to receive any assistance from Per MÃ¥rtensson in the rearing of her child, she began to fear all the harsh and cruel things she felt they would say to her and thought of burying herself in the swamp. And in her terror she jumped up and tried to rush past Gudmund; @@ -1057,7 +1017,7 @@ that you might have a hearty welcome home."</p> <h3>III</h3> -<p>Helga from the marsh croft came to Närlunda, and there all went well. +<p>Helga from the marsh croft came to Närlunda, and there all went well. She was willing and teachable and grateful for every kind word said to her. She always felt herself to be the humblest of mortals and never wanted to push herself ahead. It was not long until the household and @@ -1070,11 +1030,11 @@ regarded him as altogether too fine and noble for her even to raise her eyes to. Gudmund soon perceived that he did not have to keep her at a distance. She was more shy of him than of any one else.</p> -<p>The autumn that Helga came to Närlunda, Gudmund paid many visits to -Älvåkra, and there was much talk about the good chance he stood of being +<p>The autumn that Helga came to Närlunda, Gudmund paid many visits to +ÄlvÃ¥kra, and there was much talk about the good chance he stood of being the prospective son-in-law of this estate. That the courtship had been successful all were assured at Christmas. Then the Juryman, with his -wife and daughter, came over to Närlunda, and it was evident that they +wife and daughter, came over to Närlunda, and it was evident that they had come there to see how Hildur would fare if she married Gudmund.</p> <p>This was the first time that Helga saw, at close range, her whom Gudmund @@ -1133,7 +1093,7 @@ was on that evening.</p> <p>Helga began immediately to speak of Hildur. She praised her much: said she was the prettiest and most sensible girl in the whole parish, and congratulated Gudmund because he would have such an excellent wife. "You -must tell her to let me remain always at Närlunda," she said. "It will +must tell her to let me remain always at Närlunda," she said. "It will be a pleasure to work for a mistress like her."</p> <p>Gudmund smiled at her enthusiasm, but answered only in monosyllables, as @@ -1162,7 +1122,7 @@ good friend to her, and a faithful helper.</p> <p>She was very happy to feel that she could confide in him, as in none other, and thought that she must tell him of all that had happened to her since they last talked together. "I must tell you that it was rather -hard for me the first weeks at Närlunda," she began. "But you mustn't +hard for me the first weeks at Närlunda," she began. "But you mustn't speak of this to your mother."</p> <p>"If you want me to be silent, I'll be silent."</p> @@ -1232,7 +1192,7 @@ him.</p> <p>"When I was the most unhappy," she said, "I asked mother Ingeborg one Saturday evening to let me go home and remain over Sunday. And that evening, as I tramped over the hills to the marsh, I believed positively -that I should never again go back to Närlunda. But at home father and +that I should never again go back to Närlunda. But at home father and mother were so happy because I had found service with good and respectable people, that I didn't dare tell them I could not endure remaining with you. Then, too, as soon as I came up into the forest all @@ -1246,7 +1206,7 @@ any more. And it was well thus, but it was hard to get used to."</p> <p>"Oh, no! On Monday morning, as I awoke and thought of having to return to you, the longing came over me again. I lay crying and fretting because the only right and proper thing for me to do was to go back to -Närlunda. But I felt all the same as though I were going to be ill or +Närlunda. But I felt all the same as though I were going to be ill or lose my senses if I went back. Suddenly I remembered having once heard some one say that if one took some ashes from the hearth in one's own home and strewed them on the fire in the strange place, one would be rid @@ -1271,7 +1231,7 @@ and she could hear that he was laughing at her.</p> <p>"But I dared, all the same," retorted Helga. "It was better than having to appear as an ingrate in your mother's eyes and in yours, when you had tried to help me. I brought a little ashes from home, and when I got -back to Närlunda I watched my opportunity, when no one was in, and +back to Närlunda I watched my opportunity, when no one was in, and scattered the ashes over the hearth."</p> <p>"And now you believe it is ashes that have helped you?"</p> @@ -1318,7 +1278,7 @@ comfort and discomfort. I thought now that the fire from home had come to me and that it gave the same glow of pleasure to every one here that it had done back home."</p> -<p>"What if you had to leave Närlunda?" said Gudmund.</p> +<p>"What if you had to leave Närlunda?" said Gudmund.</p> <p>"Then I must long to come back again all my life," said she. And the quiver in her voice betrayed that this was spoken in profound @@ -1339,7 +1299,7 @@ at, still she had to speak out what was in her heart.</p> <p>Gudmund wondered if he wished Hildur to be like this, but he probably didn't. This Helga would be nothing special to marry.</p> -<p>A fortnight later Helga heard that she must leave Närlunda in April +<p>A fortnight later Helga heard that she must leave Närlunda in April because Hildur Ericsdotter would not live under the same roof with her. The master and mistress of the house did not say this in so many words, but the mistress hinted that when the new daughter-in-law came, they @@ -1352,7 +1312,7 @@ that she must leave, and she immediately announced that she would move, but she did not wish any other situation and would return to her home.</p> <p>It was apparent that it was not of their own free will they were -dismissing Helga from Närlunda.</p> +dismissing Helga from Närlunda.</p> <p>When she was leaving, there was a spread for her. It was like a party, and mother Ingeborg gave her such heaps of dresses and shoes that she, @@ -1410,7 +1370,7 @@ and she remained at home.</p> <h3>IV</h3> <p>Gudmund thought that he had loved Hildur until the day when she exacted -from him the promise that Helga should be sent away from Närlunda; at +from him the promise that Helga should be sent away from Närlunda; at least up to that time there was no one whom he had esteemed more highly than Hildur. No other young girl, to his thinking, could come up to her. It had been a pleasure for him to picture a future with Hildur. They @@ -1421,18 +1381,18 @@ then improve the land, rebuild all the tumble-down houses, extend the farm, and be a real landed proprietor.</p> <p>The same Sunday that he had walked home from church with Helga, he had -driven over to Älvåkra in the evening. Then Hildur had started talking -about Helga and had said that she wouldn't come to Närlunda until that +driven over to ÄlvÃ¥kra in the evening. Then Hildur had started talking +about Helga and had said that she wouldn't come to Närlunda until that girl was sent away. At first Gudmund had tried to dismiss the whole matter as a jest, but it was soon obvious that Hildur was in earnest. Gudmund pleaded Helga's cause exceedingly well and remarked that she was very young when first sent out to service and it was not strange that things went badly when she came across such a worthless fellow as Per -Mårtensson. But since his mother had taken her in hand, she had always +MÃ¥rtensson. But since his mother had taken her in hand, she had always conducted herself well. "It can't be right to push her out," said he. "Then, perhaps, she might meet with misfortune again."</p> -<p>But Hildur would not yield. "If that girl is to remain at Närlunda, +<p>But Hildur would not yield. "If that girl is to remain at Närlunda, then I will never come there," she declared. "I cannot tolerate a person of that kind in my home."</p> @@ -1505,7 +1465,7 @@ conversation.</p> <p>A vehicle was seen on the road, far behind. Gudmund was absorbed in thought and did not mark it, but Helga had seen it and turned abruptly to him: "It is not worth your while to be in my company, Gudmund, for, -unless I see wrongly, it is the Juryman from Älvåkra and his daughter +unless I see wrongly, it is the Juryman from ÄlvÃ¥kra and his daughter who come driving back there."</p> <p>Gudmund glanced up quickly, recognized the horse, and made a movement as @@ -1519,9 +1479,9 @@ satisfied with himself than he had been in a long while.</p> <h3>V</h3> <p>It was decided that Gudmund and Hildur's wedding should be celebrated at -Älvåkra the day following Palm Sunday. On the Friday before, Gudmund +ÄlvÃ¥kra the day following Palm Sunday. On the Friday before, Gudmund drove to town to make some purchases for the home-coming banquet, which -was to be held at Närlunda the day after the wedding. In the village he +was to be held at Närlunda the day after the wedding. In the village he happened across a number of young men from his parish. They knew it was his last trip to the city before the marriage and made it the occasion for a carouse. All insisted that Gudmund must drink, and they succeeded @@ -1622,7 +1582,7 @@ were muddy.</p> <p>"I have had other things to think of," said Gudmund listlessly, and drove off without doing anything in the matter.</p> -<p>After the service Gudmund accompanied his betrothed to Älvåkra and +<p>After the service Gudmund accompanied his betrothed to ÄlvÃ¥kra and remained there all day. A number of young people came to celebrate Hildur's last evening as a maid, and there was dancing till far into the night. Intoxicants were plentiful, but Gudmund did not touch them. The @@ -1705,7 +1665,7 @@ said Helga.</p> <p>Gudmund leaned far out over the cart and shook hands with Helga. He thought that she had grown thin and that her eyelids were red. Very probably she had lain awake and cried all night and was homesick for -Närlunda. But now she tried to appear happy and smiled sweetly at him. +Närlunda. But now she tried to appear happy and smiled sweetly at him. Again he felt deeply moved but could not speak.</p> <p>His father, who was reputed never to speak a word until it was called @@ -1811,7 +1771,7 @@ this at once," said the father.</p> immediately after, louder and firmer. "I don't want to drag Hildur into my misfortune. This she would never forgive me."</p> -<p>"The Älvåkra folk are jealous of their honor, like the rest," remarked +<p>"The ÄlvÃ¥kra folk are jealous of their honor, like the rest," remarked the father. "And you may as well know, Gudmund, that when I left home this morning I was thinking that I must tell the Juryman your position if you did not decide to do so yourself. I never could have stood @@ -1824,7 +1784,7 @@ quickly. I believe that, to the Juryman's mind, it will be right for you to give yourself up, and they will be kind to you, no doubt."</p> <p>Gudmund said nothing. His torture increased the nearer they approached -Älvåkra. The father continued talking to keep up his courage.</p> +ÄlvÃ¥kra. The father continued talking to keep up his courage.</p> <p>"I have heard something of this sort before," said he. "There was a bridegroom once who happened to shoot a comrade to death during a hunt. @@ -1843,7 +1803,7 @@ have met with misfortune, and whatever awaits you, I want to share it equally with you.'"</p> <p>Just as the father had finished the narrative, they were on the long -avenue leading to Älvåkra. Gudmund turned to him with a melancholy +avenue leading to ÄlvÃ¥kra. Gudmund turned to him with a melancholy smile. "It will not end thus for us," he said.</p> <p>"Who knows?" said the father, straightening in the cart. He looked upon @@ -2066,7 +2026,7 @@ ledge a little farther down the mountain.</p> <p>Where she sat, she had not the big, broad outlook which he enjoyed; only a little glint of the valley was visible to her. This was in the -direction where Närlunda lay, and possibly she could see a portion of +direction where Närlunda lay, and possibly she could see a portion of the farm. When Gudmund discovered her, he felt that his heart, which all the day before had labored heavily and anxiously, began to beat lightly and merrily; at the same time such a thrill of joy ran through him that @@ -2189,7 +2149,7 @@ nothing of this, but began thinking he had been mistaken. She could not feel toward him as he did toward her. He came very close and looked at her, as though he wanted to look through her. "Are you not sitting on this particular ledge of the mountain that you may look down to -Närlunda?"</p> +Närlunda?"</p> <p>"Yes."</p> @@ -2205,7 +2165,7 @@ Närlunda?"</p> <p>Helga was silent.</p> -<p>"Is it Per Mårtensson?"</p> +<p>"Is it Per MÃ¥rtensson?"</p> <p>"I have already told you that I liked him," she said, exhausted by the strain of it all.</p> @@ -2222,14 +2182,14 @@ the next landing and disappeared among the trees.</p> another direction. She ran past the marsh without stopping and hurried over the wooded hills as fast as she could and down the road. She stopped at the first farmhouse she came to and asked for the loan of a -horse and car to drive to Älvåkra. She said that it was a matter of life +horse and car to drive to ÄlvÃ¥kra. She said that it was a matter of life and death and promised to pay for the help. The church folk had already returned to their homes and were talking of the adjourned wedding. They were all very much excited and very solicitous and were eager to help Helga, since she appeared to have an important errand to the home of the bride.</p> -<p>At Älvåkra Hildur Ericsdotter sat in a little room on the upper floor +<p>At ÄlvÃ¥kra Hildur Ericsdotter sat in a little room on the upper floor where she had dressed as a bride. Her mother and several other peasant women were with her. Hildur did not weep; she was unusually quiet, and so pale that she looked as though she might be ill at any moment. The @@ -2284,7 +2244,7 @@ to speak out.</p> <p>"Then come with me at once!" said Helga. "I have a wagon down the road. Go in after a cloak or something to wrap around you; then we'll drive to -Närlunda."</p> +Närlunda."</p> <p>"What good would it do for me to go there?" asked Hildur.</p> @@ -2302,7 +2262,7 @@ prison!"</p> <p>Helga staggered back, as though she had bumped against a wall, but she quickly regained her courage. She could understand that one who was rich and powerful, like Hildur, must think thus. "I should not come and ask -you to go to Närlunda did I not know that Gudmund was innocent," said +you to go to Närlunda did I not know that Gudmund was innocent," said she.</p> <p>Now it was Hildur who came a step or two towards Helga. "Do you know @@ -2335,9 +2295,9 @@ said to him this morning."</p> <p>Hildur listened quietly. There was something in this which she had never met with in her life before, and she was striving to make it clear to -herself. "Do you know that it was I who wanted you to leave Närlunda?"</p> +herself. "Do you know that it was I who wanted you to leave Närlunda?"</p> -<p>"I know, of course, that it was not the folk at Närlunda who wished me +<p>"I know, of course, that it was not the folk at Närlunda who wished me away."</p> <p>"I can't comprehend that you should come to me to-day with the desire to @@ -2363,7 +2323,7 @@ Hildur. "Now you must go alone to the house and talk with Gudmund. I'll follow a little later and tell that about the knife. But you mustn't say a word to Gudmund about my having brought you here."</p> -<p>Gudmund sat in the living-room at Närlunda beside his mother and talked +<p>Gudmund sat in the living-room at Närlunda beside his mother and talked with her. His father was sitting a little way from them, smoking. He looked pleased and said not a word. It was apparent that he thought everything was going now as it should and that it was not necessary for @@ -2473,7 +2433,7 @@ have made me!"</p> hand, she sat and pictured Hildur and Gudmund together and thought how happy they must be now.</p> -<p>While she sat thus, a servant from Närlunda came along. He stopped when +<p>While she sat thus, a servant from Närlunda came along. He stopped when he saw her. "I suppose you have heard that affair which concerns Gudmund?"</p> @@ -2485,7 +2445,7 @@ Gudmund?"</p> <p>Thereupon the man went, and Helga sat there alone, as before. So they knew it already down there! It was not necessary for her to go to -Närlunda and tell of it.</p> +Närlunda and tell of it.</p> <p>She felt herself so strangely shut out! Earlier in the day she had been so eager. She had not thought of herself—only that Gudmund and Hildur's @@ -2498,9 +2458,9 @@ her mother, who would hardly allow her to look at it.</p> appeared long and difficult to her. She didn't know how she should ever be able to climb them.</p> -<p>A vehicle came along now from the direction of Närlunda. Hildur and +<p>A vehicle came along now from the direction of Närlunda. Hildur and Gudmund were seated in the cart. Now they were probably on their way to -Älvåkra to tell that they were reconciled. To-morrow the wedding would +ÄlvÃ¥kra to tell that they were reconciled. To-morrow the wedding would take place.</p> <p>When they discovered Helga, they stopped the horse. Gudmund handed the @@ -2705,7 +2665,7 @@ asleep.</p> <p>"Once upon a time there were five men from this parish who were out on a moose hunt," began the clergyman. "One of them was the parson of whom we are speaking. Two of the others were soldiers, named Olaf and Eric -Svärd; the fourth man was the innkeeper in this settlement, and the +Svärd; the fourth man was the innkeeper in this settlement, and the fifth was a peasant named Israel Per Persson."</p> <p>"Don't go to the trouble of mentioning so many names," muttered the @@ -2870,11 +2830,11 @@ that I want to deceive you. You mustn't be afraid of being happy.'</p> <p>"'Happy!' said Per Persson. 'Should I be happy? I believed it was only glitter that we had found, so I thought it would be better to take the certain for the uncertain: I have sold my share in the mine to Olaf -Svärd for a hundred dollars.' He was desperate, and when the parson +Svärd for a hundred dollars.' He was desperate, and when the parson drove away from him, he stood on the highway and wept.</p> <p>"When the clergyman got back to his home, he sent a servant to Olaf -Svärd and his brother to tell them that it was silver they had found. +Svärd and his brother to tell them that it was silver they had found. He thought that he had had quite enough of driving around and spreading the good news.</p> @@ -2921,7 +2881,7 @@ lie buried in the earth! I must take it out, for the benefit of the poor and needy. I will work the mine, to put the whole parish on its feet.'</p> -<p>"So one day the parson went out to see Olaf Svärd, to ask him and his +<p>"So one day the parson went out to see Olaf Svärd, to ask him and his brother as to what should be done immediately with the silver mountain. When he came in the vicinity of the barracks, he met a cart surrounded by armed peasants, and in the cart sat a man with his hands tied behind @@ -2929,7 +2889,7 @@ him and a rope around his ankles.</p> <p>"When the parson passed by, the cart stopped, and he had time to regard the prisoner, whose head was tied up so it wasn't easy to see who he -was. But the parson thought he recognized Olaf Svärd. He heard the +was. But the parson thought he recognized Olaf Svärd. He heard the prisoner beg those who guarded him to let him speak a few words with the parson.</p> @@ -2956,7 +2916,7 @@ the soldier, but the parson interrupted him.</p> <p>"'As regards this, you can rest easy. That which comes to your share in the mine, they shall have, exactly as if you yourself were living.'</p> -<p>"'No,' said Olaf Svärd, 'it was another thing I wanted to ask of you. +<p>"'No,' said Olaf Svärd, 'it was another thing I wanted to ask of you. Don't let them have any portion of that which comes from the mine!'</p> <p>"The parson staggered back a step. He stood there dumb and could not @@ -3307,7 +3267,7 @@ secluded spot in the forest, and live all by themselves and never show themselves to a human being.</p> <p>While the boys are laying their plans, the train stops at a station, and -a peasant woman, leading a little boy by the hand, comes into the coupé. +a peasant woman, leading a little boy by the hand, comes into the coupé. She is dressed in black, with a shawl on her head, and has a kind and friendly appearance. She removes the little one's overcoat, which is wet from the rain, and wraps a shawl around him. Then she takes off his @@ -3323,7 +3283,7 @@ obstinately lowered.</p> <p>It seems that when the peasant woman entered some one else—some one who was invisible and imperceptible to all save the boys—came into the -coupé. The boys fancied that she came and sat down between them and took +coupé. The boys fancied that she came and sat down between them and took their hands in hers, as she had done late last night, when it was settled that they must leave her; and she was talking to them now as she did then. "You must promise me that you will not be angry with father @@ -3370,11 +3330,11 @@ the janitor.</p> <p>Father is hardly outside the door when an idea strikes him. Instantly he understands why he has no strength in his hands. It is still quite early in the morning and he has not consumed anything which could set the -blood in motion. If he were to step into a café and have a cognac, he +blood in motion. If he were to step into a café and have a cognac, he would get back his strength and could manage without help. This is better than calling the janitor.</p> -<p>Then father goes into the street to try and hunt up a café. When he +<p>Then father goes into the street to try and hunt up a café. When he returns to the little apartment on the court, it is eight o'clock in the evening.</p> @@ -3885,7 +3845,7 @@ them.</p> <p>Now I'm going to tell a pretty story.</p> -<p>A good many years ago there was to be a very big wedding at Svartsjö +<p>A good many years ago there was to be a very big wedding at Svartsjö parish in Vermland.</p> <p>First, there was to be a church ceremony and after that three days of @@ -3896,50 +3856,50 @@ there was to be dancing from early morning till far into the night.</p> to get a good fiddler, and Juryman Nils Olafsson, who was managing the wedding, worried almost more over this than over anything else.</p> -<p>The fiddler they had at Svartsjö he did not care to engage. His name was -Jan Öster. The Juryman knew, to be sure, that he had quite a big name; +<p>The fiddler they had at Svartsjö he did not care to engage. His name was +Jan Öster. The Juryman knew, to be sure, that he had quite a big name; but he was so poor that sometimes he would appear at a wedding in a frayed jacket and without shoes to his feet. The Juryman didn't wish to see such a ragtag at the head of the bridal procession, so he decided to -send a messenger to a musician in Jösse parish, who was commonly called -Fiddler Mårten, and ask him if he wouldn't come and play at the wedding.</p> +send a messenger to a musician in Jösse parish, who was commonly called +Fiddler MÃ¥rten, and ask him if he wouldn't come and play at the wedding.</p> -<p>Fiddler Mårten didn't consider the proposition for a second, but -promptly replied that he did not want to play at Svartsjö, because in +<p>Fiddler MÃ¥rten didn't consider the proposition for a second, but +promptly replied that he did not want to play at Svartsjö, because in that parish lived a musician who was more skilled than all others in Vermland. While they had him, there was no need for them to call another.</p> <p>When Nils Olafsson received this answer, he took a few days to think it over, and then he sent word to a fiddler in Big Kil parish, named Olle -in Säby, to ask him if he wouldn't come and play at his daughter's +in Säby, to ask him if he wouldn't come and play at his daughter's wedding.</p> -<p>Olle in Säby answered in the same way as Fiddler Mårten. He sent his +<p>Olle in Säby answered in the same way as Fiddler MÃ¥rten. He sent his compliments to Nils Olafsson, and said that so long as there was such a -capable musician as Jan Öster to be had in Svartsjö, he didn't want to +capable musician as Jan Öster to be had in Svartsjö, he didn't want to go there to play.</p> <p>Nils Olafsson didn't like it that the musicians tried in this way to force upon him the very one he did not want. Now he considered that it -was a point of honor with him to get another fiddler than Jan Öster.</p> +was a point of honor with him to get another fiddler than Jan Öster.</p> -<p>A few days after he had the answer from Olle in Säby, he sent his +<p>A few days after he had the answer from Olle in Säby, he sent his servant to fiddler Lars Larsson, who lived at the game lodge in Ullerud parish. Lars Larsson was a well-to-do man who owned a fine farm. He was sensible and considerate and no hotspur, like the other musicians. But -Lars Larsson, like the others, at once thought of Jan Öster, and asked +Lars Larsson, like the others, at once thought of Jan Öster, and asked how it happened that he was not to play at the wedding.</p> <p>Nils Olafsson's servant thought it best to say to him that, since Jan -Öster lived at Svartsjö, they could hear him play at any time. As Nils +Öster lived at Svartsjö, they could hear him play at any time. As Nils Olafsson was making ready to give a grand wedding, he wished to treat his guests to something a little better and more select.</p> <p>"I doubt if you can get any one better," said Lars Larsson.</p> -<p>"Now you must be thinking of answering in the same way as fiddler Mårten -and Olle in Säby did," said the servant. Then he told him how he had +<p>"Now you must be thinking of answering in the same way as fiddler MÃ¥rten +and Olle in Säby did," said the servant. Then he told him how he had fared with them.</p> <p>Lars Larsson paid close attention to the servant's story, and then he @@ -3947,28 +3907,28 @@ sat quietly for a long while and pondered. Finally he answered in the affirmative: "Tell your master that I thank him for his invitation and will come."</p> -<p>The following Sunday Lars Larsson journeyed down to Svartsjö. He drove +<p>The following Sunday Lars Larsson journeyed down to Svartsjö. He drove up to the church knoll just as the wedding guests were forming into line to march to the church. He came driving in his own chaise and with a good horse and dressed in black broadcloth. He took out his fiddle from a highly polished box. Nils Olafsson received him effusively, thinking that here was a fiddler of whom he might be proud.</p> -<p>Immediately after Lars Larsson's arrival, Jan Öster, too, came marching +<p>Immediately after Lars Larsson's arrival, Jan Öster, too, came marching up to the church, with his fiddle under his arm. He walked straight up to the crowd around the bride, exactly as if he were asked to come and play at the wedding.</p> -<p>Jan Öster had come in the old gray homespun jacket which they had seen +<p>Jan Öster had come in the old gray homespun jacket which they had seen him wearing for ages. But, as this was to be such a grand wedding, his wife had made an attempt at mending the holes at the elbow by sewing big -green patches over them. Jan Öster was a tall handsome man, and would +green patches over them. Jan Öster was a tall handsome man, and would have made a fine appearance at the head of the bridal procession, had he not been so shabbily dressed, and had his face not been so lined and seamed by worries and the hard struggle with misfortune.</p> -<p>When Lars Larsson saw Jan Öster coming, he seemed a bit displeased. "So -you have called Jan Öster, too," he said under his breath to the Juryman +<p>When Lars Larsson saw Jan Öster coming, he seemed a bit displeased. "So +you have called Jan Öster, too," he said under his breath to the Juryman Nils Olafsson, "but at a grand wedding there's no harm in having two fiddlers."</p> @@ -3984,7 +3944,7 @@ if you were to tell him that he was not invited?"</p> <p>This the Juryman knew, too! It was no time to begin fussing when the bridal procession was forming on the church grounds; so he walked up to -Jan Öster and bade him be welcome. Thereupon the two fiddlers took their +Jan Öster and bade him be welcome. Thereupon the two fiddlers took their places at the head of the procession. The bridal pair walked under a canopy, the bridesmaids and the groomsmen marched in pairs, and after them came the parents and relatives; so the procession was both imposing @@ -3993,14 +3953,14 @@ and long.</p> <p>When everything was in readiness, a groomsman stepped up to the musicians and asked them to play the Wedding March. Both musicians swung their fiddles up to their chins, but beyond that they did not get. And -thus they stood! It was an old custom in Svartsjö for the best fiddler +thus they stood! It was an old custom in Svartsjö for the best fiddler to strike up the Wedding March and to lead the music.</p> <p>The groomsman looked at Lars Larsson, as though he were waiting for him -to start; but Lars Larsson looked at Jan Öster and said, "It is you, Jan -Öster, who must begin."</p> +to start; but Lars Larsson looked at Jan Öster and said, "It is you, Jan +Öster, who must begin."</p> -<p>It did not seem possible to Jan Öster that the other fiddler, who was as +<p>It did not seem possible to Jan Öster that the other fiddler, who was as finely dressed as any gentleman, should not be better than himself, who had come in his old homespun jacket straight from the wretched hovel where there were only poverty and distress. "No, indeed!" said he. "No, @@ -4009,12 +3969,12 @@ indeed!"</p> <p>He saw that the bridegroom put forth his hand and touched Lars Larsson. "Larsson shall begin," said he.</p> -<p>When Jan Öster heard the bridegroom say this, he promptly lowered his +<p>When Jan Öster heard the bridegroom say this, he promptly lowered his fiddle and stepped aside.</p> <p>Lars Larsson, on the other hand, did not move from the spot, but remained standing in his place, confident and pleased with himself. Nor -did he raise the bow. "It is Jan Öster who shall begin," he repeated +did he raise the bow. "It is Jan Öster who shall begin," he repeated stubbornly and resistingly, as one who is used to having his own way.</p> <p>There was some commotion among the crowds over the cause of the delay. @@ -4022,7 +3982,7 @@ The bride's father came forward and begged Lars Larsson to begin. The sexton stepped to the door of the church and beckoned to them to hurry along. The parson stood waiting at the altar.</p> -<p>"You can ask Jan Öster to begin, then," said Lars Larsson. "We musicians +<p>"You can ask Jan Öster to begin, then," said Lars Larsson. "We musicians consider him to be the best among us."</p> <p>"That may be so," said a peasant, "but we peasants consider you the best @@ -4037,9 +3997,9 @@ can't see why the people in this parish are so opposed to having their own fiddler placed in the lead."</p> <p>Nils Olafsson was perfectly furious because they wished in this way to -force Jan Öster upon him. He came close up to Lars Larsson and +force Jan Öster upon him. He came close up to Lars Larsson and whispered: "I comprehend that it is you who have called hither Jan -Öster, and that you have arranged this to do him honor. But be quick, +Öster, and that you have arranged this to do him honor. But be quick, now, and play up, or I'll drive that ragamuffin from the church grounds in disgrace and by force!"</p> @@ -4047,13 +4007,13 @@ in disgrace and by force!"</p> displaying any irritation. "Yes, you are right in saying that we must have an end of this," said he.</p> -<p>He beckoned to Jan Öster to return to his place. Then he himself walked +<p>He beckoned to Jan Öster to return to his place. Then he himself walked forward a step or two, and turned around that all might see him. Then he flung the bow far from him, pulled out his case-knife, and cut all four violin strings, which snapped with a sharp twang. "It shall not be -said of me that I count myself better than Jan Öster!" said he.</p> +said of me that I count myself better than Jan Öster!" said he.</p> -<p>It appears that for three years Jan Öster had been musing on an air +<p>It appears that for three years Jan Öster had been musing on an air which he couldn't get out over the strings because at home he was bound down by dull, gray cares and worries, and nothing ever happened to him, either great or small, to lift him above the daily grind. But when he @@ -4065,7 +4025,7 @@ tones of it vibrated he walked with proud step down to the church.</p> <p>The bridal procession had never before heard an air like that! It carried them along with such speed that not even Nils Olafsson could -think of staying back. And every one was so pleased both with Jan Öster +think of staying back. And every one was so pleased both with Jan Öster and with Lars Larsson that the entire following entered the church, their eyes brimming with tears of joy.</p> @@ -4405,12 +4365,12 @@ that she had spoken God's name over him.</p> <h2><a name="The_Legend_of_the_Christmas_Rose" id="The_Legend_of_the_Christmas_Rose"></a>The Legend of the Christmas Rose</h2> -<p>Robber Mother, who lived in Robbers' Cave up in Göinge forest, went down +<p>Robber Mother, who lived in Robbers' Cave up in Göinge forest, went down to the village one day on a begging tour. Robber Father, who was an outlawed man, did not dare to leave the forest, but had to content himself with lying in wait for the wayfarers who ventured within its borders. But at that time travellers were not very plentiful in Southern -Skåne. If it so happened that the man had had a few weeks of ill luck +SkÃ¥ne. If it so happened that the man had had a few weeks of ill luck with his hunt, his wife would take to the road. She took with her five youngsters, and each youngster wore a ragged leathern suit and birch-bark shoes and bore a sack on his back as long as himself. When @@ -4424,7 +4384,7 @@ would have known how to wreak vengeance if anything had happened to the children or the old woman.</p> <p>Now that Robber Mother went from house to house and begged, she came one -day to Övid, which at that time was a cloister. She rang the bell of the +day to Övid, which at that time was a cloister. She rang the bell of the cloister gate and asked for food. The watchman let down a small wicket in the gate and handed her six round bread cakes—one for herself and one for each of the five children.</p> @@ -4439,7 +4399,7 @@ youngster had managed to find a little back gate which stood ajar. When Robber Mother got there, she pushed the gate open and walked inside without asking leave, as it was her custom to do.</p> -<p>Övid Cloister was managed at that time by Abbot Hans, who knew all about +<p>Övid Cloister was managed at that time by Abbot Hans, who knew all about herbs. Just within the cloister wall he had planted a little herb garden, and it was into this that the old woman had forced her way.</p> @@ -4465,7 +4425,7 @@ lay brother.</p> and turn her toward the gate. But when the robber woman saw his purpose, she gave him a look that sent him reeling backward. She had been walking with back bent under her beggar's pack, but now she straightened -herself to her full height. "I am Robber Mother from Göinge forest; so +herself to her full height. "I am Robber Mother from Göinge forest; so touch me if you dare!" And it was obvious that she was as certain she would be left in peace as if she had announced that she was the Queen of Denmark.</p> @@ -4499,7 +4459,7 @@ reinforcements.</p> <p>As they ran through the passage-way which led to the cloister, they met Abbot Hans, who came rushing out to learn what all this noise was about.</p> -<p>Then they had to confess that Robber Mother from Göinge forest had come +<p>Then they had to confess that Robber Mother from Göinge forest had come into the cloister and that they were unable to drive her out and must call for assistance.</p> @@ -4533,7 +4493,7 @@ spread over his withered cheek. The lay brother, who was standing close by, immediately began to censure the old woman. "This is Abbot Hans," said he, "who with much care and diligence has gathered the flowers from far and near for his herb garden. We all know that there is not a -more beautiful garden to be found in all Skåne, and it is not befitting +more beautiful garden to be found in all SkÃ¥ne, and it is not befitting that you, who live in the wild forest all the year around, should find fault with his work."</p> @@ -4546,13 +4506,13 @@ cast them away like weeds."</p> Abbot himself, and after hearing her remarks he laughed derisively. "I can understand that you only talk like this to tease us. It must be a pretty garden that you have made for yourself amongst the pines in -Göinge forest! I'd be willing to wager my soul's salvation that you have +Göinge forest! I'd be willing to wager my soul's salvation that you have never before been within the walls of an herb garden."</p> <p>Robber Mother grew crimson with rage to think that her word was doubted, and she cried out: "It may be true that until to-day I had never been within the walls of an herb garden; but you monks, who are holy men, -certainly must know that on every Christmas Eve the great Göinge forest +certainly must know that on every Christmas Eve the great Göinge forest is transformed into a beautiful garden, to commemorate the hour of our Lord's birth. We who live in the forest have seen this happen every year. And in that garden I have seen flowers so lovely that I dared not @@ -4584,7 +4544,7 @@ purpose, would not allow a man of his years to go up to the Robbers' Cave.</p> <p>Nor did he himself intend to reveal his project to a human being. And -then it happened that Archbishop Absalon from Lund came to Övid and +then it happened that Archbishop Absalon from Lund came to Övid and remained through the night. When Abbot Hans was showing him the herb garden, he got to thinking of Robber Mother's visit, and the lay brother, who was at work in the garden, heard Abbot Hans telling the @@ -4599,7 +4559,7 @@ to deal with up there in the forest."</p> among honest folk in the villages. It would be best for all that he remain in the forest.</p> -<p>Then Abbot Hans grew zealous and told the Bishop all about Göinge +<p>Then Abbot Hans grew zealous and told the Bishop all about Göinge forest, which, every year at Yuletide, clothed itself in summer bloom around the Robbers' Cave. "If these bandits are not so bad but that God's glories can be made manifest to them, surely we cannot be too @@ -4607,7 +4567,7 @@ wicked to experience the same blessing."</p> <p>The Archbishop knew how to answer Abbot Hans. "This much I will promise you, Abbot Hans," he said, smiling, "that any day you send me a blossom -from the garden in Göinge forest, I will give you letters of ransom for +from the garden in Göinge forest, I will give you letters of ransom for all the outlaws you may choose to plead for."</p> <p>The lay brother apprehended that Bishop Absalon believed as little in @@ -4618,7 +4578,7 @@ that he would surely send him the flower.</p> <hr style="width: 45%;" /> <p>Abbot Hans had his way. And the following Christmas Eve he did not sit -at home with his monks in Övid Cloister, but was on his way to Göinge +at home with his monks in Övid Cloister, but was on his way to Göinge forest. One of Robber Mother's wild youngsters ran ahead of him, and close behind him was the lay brother who had talked with Robber Mother in the herb garden.</p> @@ -4641,7 +4601,7 @@ sheaves of straw to be strewn over the floors.</p> <p>As he rode by the little country churches, he observed that each parson, with his sexton, was busily engaged in decorating his church; and when -he came to the road which leads to Bösjo Cloister, he observed that all +he came to the road which leads to Bösjo Cloister, he observed that all the poor of the parish were coming with armfuls of bread and long candles, which they had received at the cloister gate.</p> @@ -4734,7 +4694,7 @@ goose."</p> <p>The lay brother was annoyed with the robber folk for daring to laugh at Abbot Hans, but on his own account he was well pleased. He had seldom -seen the Abbot sitting more peaceful and meek with his monks at Övid +seen the Abbot sitting more peaceful and meek with his monks at Övid than he now sat with this wild robber folk.</p> <p>Suddenly Robber Mother rose. "You sit here and talk, Abbot Hans," she @@ -4926,7 +4886,7 @@ cup of happiness which he had been thirsting to drain to its last drop.</p> <hr style="width: 45%;" /> -<p>When Abbot Hans had been carried down to Övid, those who took charge of +<p>When Abbot Hans had been carried down to Övid, those who took charge of the dead saw that he held his right hand locked tight around something which he must have grasped at the moment of death. When they finally got his hand open, they found that the thing which he had held in such an @@ -4947,15 +4907,15 @@ he came to the spot where he had planted the bare root bulbs, he saw that from them had sprung flourishing green stalks, which bore beautiful flowers with silver white leaves.</p> -<p>He called out all the monks at Övid, and when they saw that this plant +<p>He called out all the monks at Övid, and when they saw that this plant bloomed on Christmas Eve, when all the other growths were as if dead, they understood that this flower had in truth been plucked by Abbot Hans -from the Christmas garden in Göinge forest. Then the lay brother asked +from the Christmas garden in Göinge forest. Then the lay brother asked the monks if he might take a few blossoms to Bishop Absalon.</p> <p>And when he appeared before Bishop Absalon, he gave him the flowers and said: "Abbot Hans sends you these. They are the flowers he promised to -pick for you from the garden in Göinge forest."</p> +pick for you from the garden in Göinge forest."</p> <p>When Bishop Absalon beheld the flowers, which had sprung from the earth in darkest winter, and heard the words, he turned as pale as if he had @@ -4967,7 +4927,7 @@ and had been forced to live in the forest ever since his youth.</p> <p>He handed the letter to the lay brother, who departed at once for the Robbers' Cave. When he stepped in there on Christmas Day, the robber came toward him with axe uplifted. "I'd like to hack you monks into -bits, as many as you are!" said he. "It must be your fault that Göinge +bits, as many as you are!" said he. "It must be your fault that Göinge forest did not last night dress itself in Christmas bloom."</p> <p>"The fault is mine alone," said the lay brother, "and I will gladly die @@ -4985,12 +4945,12 @@ Father will keep his."</p> lived all alone in the forest, in constant meditation and prayer that his hard-heartedness might be forgiven him.</p> -<p>But Göinge forest never again celebrated the hour of our Saviour's +<p>But Göinge forest never again celebrated the hour of our Saviour's birth; and of all its glory, there lives to-day only the plant which Abbot Hans had plucked. It has been named <span class="smcap">Christmas Rose</span>. And each year at Christmastide she sends forth from the earth her green stalks and white blossoms, as if she never could forget that she had once grown in -the great Christmas garden at Göinge forest.</p> +the great Christmas garden at Göinge forest.</p> @@ -5748,7 +5708,7 @@ make many futile attempts, for everywhere it was turned away. Anything else was hardly to be expected. People had many things of much more importance to think of.</p> -<p>Finally the story came to an old place called Mårbacka. It was a little +<p>Finally the story came to an old place called MÃ¥rbacka. It was a little homestead, with low buildings overshadowed by giant trees. At one time it had been a parsonage, and it was as if this had set a certain stamp upon the place which it could not lose. They seemed to have a greater @@ -5868,7 +5828,7 @@ said to herself that Runeberg's jolly warriors and Bellman's happy-go-lucky roisterers were the very best material a writer could have to work with. And suddenly this thought flashed upon her: Vermland, the world in which you have been living, is not less remarkable than -that of Fredman or Fänrik Stål. If you can only learn how to handle it, +that of Fredman or Fänrik StÃ¥l. If you can only learn how to handle it, you will find that your material is quite as good as theirs.</p> <p>This is how it happened that she caught her first glimpse of the story. @@ -5909,7 +5869,7 @@ attained.</p> <p>After this conversation she could see the hero of her story better than heretofore, and with this a little life and action came into it. One -fine day a name was given to the hero and he was called Gösta Berling. +fine day a name was given to the hero and he was called Gösta Berling. Whence he got the name she never knew. It was as if he had named himself.</p> @@ -5924,7 +5884,7 @@ Christmas night at the smithy.</p> <p>What a chapter! It was her first and for many years her only one. It was first written in verse, for the original plan was that it should be a -romance cycle, like "Fänrik Stål's Sagas." But by degrees this was +romance cycle, like "Fänrik StÃ¥l's Sagas." But by degrees this was changed, and for a time the idea was that it should be written as drama. Then the Christmas night was worked over to go in as the first act. But this attempt did not succeed, either; at last she decided to write the @@ -5933,8 +5893,8 @@ enormously long, covering forty written pages. The last time it was rewritten it took up only nine.</p> <p>After a few more years came a second chapter. It was the story of the -Ball at Borg and of the wolves that hunted Gösta Berling and Anna -Stjernhök.</p> +Ball at Borg and of the wolves that hunted Gösta Berling and Anna +Stjernhök.</p> <p>In the beginning this chapter was not written with the thought that it could come into the story, but as a sort of chance composition to be @@ -5982,7 +5942,7 @@ calm, realistic prose. She was not very clear-visioned. Another would have seen that the impossible was impossible.</p> <p>Once she wrote a couple of chapters in another style. One was a scene -from Svartsjö churchyard; the other was about the old philosopher, Uncle +from Svartsjö churchyard; the other was about the old philosopher, Uncle Eberhard, and his infidel manuscripts. She scribbled them mostly in fun, with many ohs and ahs in the prose, which made it almost rhythmical. She perceived that in this vein she could write. There was inspiration in @@ -6024,11 +5984,11 @@ had surmised were stored away in her brain, crowded down upon the paper. The pages were filled with a haste of which she had never dreamed. What had hitherto required months—no, years—to work out, was now accomplished in a couple of hours. That evening she wrote the story of -the young countess' tramp over the ice on River Löven, and the flood at +the young countess' tramp over the ice on River Löven, and the flood at Ekeby.</p> <p>The following afternoon she wrote the scene in which the gouty ensign, -Rutger von Örneclou, tries to raise himself in bed to dance the Cachuca, +Rutger von Örneclou, tries to raise himself in bed to dance the Cachuca, and the evening of the next day appeared the story of the old <i>Mamsell</i> who went off to visit the parsimonious Broby clergyman.</p> @@ -6149,7 +6109,7 @@ procure the money."</p> Teachers' College to ask her assistance in securing a substitute.</p> <p>At one o'clock she was happily seated in the railway carriage. But now -she was going no farther than Sörmland, where she had good friends who +she was going no farther than Sörmland, where she had good friends who lived in a charming villa.</p> <p>And so they—Otto Gumaelius and his wife—gave her the freedom of their @@ -6202,388 +6162,12 @@ Fredrika Bremer.</p></div> <p class="center">MIRACLES OF ANTICHRIST<br /> (<i>Trans. from Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach</i>)</p> -<p class="center">STORY OF GÖSTA BERLING<br /> +<p class="center">STORY OF GÖSTA BERLING<br /> (<i>Trans. from Swedish by Pauline Bancroft Flach</i>)</p> <p class="center">FROM A SWEDISH HOMESTEAD<br /> -(<i>Trans. from Swedish by Jessie Bröchner</i>)</p> - - - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of Project Gutenberg's The Girl From the Marsh Croft, by Selma Lagerlöf - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GIRL FROM THE MARSH CROFT *** - -***** This file should be named 41414-h.htm or 41414-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/1/4/1/41414/ - -Produced by sp1nd, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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