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Updated: May 18, 2025
And immediately after, Anna Apenborg beheld three shadows, in place of two, thrown upon the white wall opposite the little window. So she strengthened her heart to look in, and truly there was another form present now. And the three danced together, and chanted strange rhymes, while the shadows on the wall danced up and down likewise.
So she pushed the poor woman out, and then panting and blowing with rage, asked Anna Apenborg to tell her what this boor of a sheriff was like? Illa. "He was a strange man. Ate fish every day, and always cooked the one way, namely, in beer. How this was possible she could not understand. To-day she heard he was to have pike for his dinner." Haec. "Was she asking the fool what he ate?
Then she took the padlock, and murmured some words over it, of which Anna Apenborg could only catch the names, Philip, Francis, George, Ulrich, Bogislaff, who were all sons to Duke Bogislaff XIII., and, in truth, died each one without leaving an heir.
Then Sidonia took her leave; but scarcely had she reached her own apartment when she sent for Anna Apenborg. "What sort of man was this chaplain? she saw that he went about the convent at his pleasure. This was strange when he was unmarried." Illa. "He was a right friendly and well-behaved gentleman. Nothing unseemly in word or deed had ever been heard of him." Haec.
Every one present signed this, with the exception of Anna Apenborg and the sub-prioress, Dorothea Stettin. And many think that in consideration of this gentleness, Sidonia afterwards spared their lives, and did not bring them to a premature grave, like as she did the worthy abbess and others. For the next time that she caught Anna at her old habit of listening, Sidonia said, while boxing her
The poor abbess heard of all this through Anna Apenborg, and thereupon bethought herself of a little embassy likewise. So she bid Anna take all sorts of good pastry, and a new kettle, and greet the Lady Sidonia from her "Could the dear sister give her anything for the rheumatism?" She heard the sheriff was quite cured, and all the doctor's salves and plasters were only making her worse.
Now Anna Apenborg had hardly turned her back, to go and chatter all this back again to the sub-prioress, when Sidonia proceeded to tap some of her beer, and called the convent porter to her, Matthias Winterfeld, bidding him carry it with her greetings to the chaplain, David Ludeck. Never let him appear before her eyes in such unseemly trim.
"Such wickedness and arrogance had never yet been seen under the sun. Let the good abbess only feel his head; there was a lump as big as an egg on it. Truly, he had had a mind to horsewhip her black and blue; but that would have been illegal; so he thanked God that he had restrained himself." Then he made the abbess feel his head again; also Anna Apenborg, who happened to come in that moment.
Whereupon they all went out, except Anna Apenborg, who said that she, too, had matter of grave import to relate. So finding she would not stir, the priest took her by the hand, and put her out at the door along with the others. Now when they were both left alone, we can easily imagine the subject of their conversation.
Two days now passed over, but on the third morning Anna Apenborg trotted into the refectory full of news. However, she was well repaid, and had heard all she wanted; oh, there was great news! Illa. "Quick! what? how? why? Remember it is for the honour and reputation of the entire convent." Haec.
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