Selma Lagerlöf
Gösta Berling
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2020 OK Publishing
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER IV GÖSTA BERLING, POET
CHAPTER VIII THE GREAT BEAR IN GURLITTA CLIFF
CHAPTER IX THE AUCTION AT BJÖRNE
CHAPTER XII EBBA DOHNA’S STORY
CHAPTER IV THE IRON FROM EKEBY
CHAPTER IX THE BROBY CLERGYMAN
CHAPTER XV DEATH, THE DELIVERER
CHAPTER XVII THE CHILD’S MOTHER
CHAPTER XVIII AMOR VINCIT OMNIA
CHAPTER XXII THE FOREST COTTAGE
CHAPTER XXIII MARGARETA CELSING
INTRODUCTION
I
THE PRIEST
At last the minister stood in the pulpit. The heads of the congregation were lifted. Well, there he finally was. There would be no default this Sunday, as on the last and on many other Sundays before.
The minister was young, tall, slender, and strikingly handsome. With a helmet on his head, and girt with sword and shirt of mail, he could have been cut in marble and taken for an ideal of Grecian beauty.
He had a poet’s deep eyes, and a general’s firm, rounded chin; everything about him was beautiful, noble, full of feeling, glowing with genius and spiritual life.
The people in the church felt themselves strangely subdued to see him so. They were more used to see him come reeling out of the public house with his good friends, Beerencreutz, the Colonel with the thick, white moustaches, and the stalwart