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"I bet you that sleek Dyceworthy fellow meant the old bonde and his daughter, when he spoke of persons who were 'ejected' from the social circles of Bosekop. Fancy Bosekop society presuming to be particular what an absurd idea!" "My good fellow, don't pretend to be so deplorably ignorant!
There was nothing in sight but the distant, twinkling lights of Bosekop the Fjord itself was like a black pool, so still that even the faintest murmur of its rippling against the bonde's own private pier could be heard, the tide was full up.
Would not Olaf Gueldmar relate the story of the child's rescue to any one that asked him? Would you like all Bosekop to know of your intrigue with an escaped criminal, who was afterwards caught and hung! The virtuous Ulrika the zealous servant of the Gospel the pious, praying Ulrika!" and the old woman trembled with rage and excitement. "Out of my power? Never, never!
No 'twill be better we should take the boat and pull over to Bosekop; there we can get a carriole to take two of us at least to Talvig " He stopped, interrupted by Macfarlane, who looked particularly shrewd. "I should certainly advise ye to try Bosekop first," he remarked cautiously. "Mr. Dyceworthy might be able to provide ye with valuable information."
"I know it is all false," she said to herself over and over again. "And the people here are as silly as the peasants in Bosekop, ready to believe any untruth so long as it gives them something to talk about. But they may chatter as they please I shall not say one word, not even to Philip for it would seem as if I mistrusted him."
Meanwhile, as he thought and planned, other thoughts and plans were being discussed at a meeting which was held in a little ruined stone hut, situated behind some trees on a dreary hill just outside Bosekop. It was a miserable place, barren of foliage, the ground was dry and yellow, and the hut itself looked as if it had been struck by lightning.
"At the side of the knoll is the bonde's house, a good eight-mile walk from the outskirts of Bosekop. Should you ever seek to rest there, gentlemen," and Svensen spoke with quiet resolution, "I doubt whether you will receive a pleasant welcome." And he looked at them both with an inquisitive air, as though seeking to discover their intentions.
"I see you love the child. The gods forbid that I should stand in the way of her happiness! I am getting old, and 'twas often a sore point with me to know what would become of my darling when I was gone, for she is fair to look upon, and there are many human wolves ready to devour such lambs. Still, my lad, you must learn all. Do you know what is said of me in Bosekop?"
But up to this time, she had been, as it were, secluded from all eyes, a few haymakers and fishermen were the only persons of the male sex who had ever been within the precincts of Olaf Gueldmar's dwelling, with the exception of himself, Dyceworthy, who, being armed with a letter of introduction from the actual minister of Bosekop, whose place, he, for the present, filled, had intruded his company frequently and persistently on the bonde and his daughter, though he knew himself to be entirely unwelcome.
Britta glanced anxiously at him, and went on. "Then she tried to shut the doors upon me and beat me but I escaped. Outside I saw a man I knew with his carriole, and I borrowed it of him and came back as fast as I could but oh! I am so afraid my grandmother said such dreadful things!" "The others have taken a boat to Bosekop," said Duprez, to reassure her. "They may be there by now."
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