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And if any one suggested that Geissler was dejected, and a broken man, why, he had only to look at the costly machines that same Geissler had sent up as a present to Axel Ström. This man it was then, who held the fate of the district in his hand; they would have to come to some agreement with him. What price would Geissler ultimately be disposed to accept for his mine?
She had explained, too, why it was best for her to go just then; there were but two cows to milk, and in the spring there would be two more, besides all the goats with kids, and the busy season, and work enough right on till June. "Do as you please," said Axel. It was not going to cost him anything, not at all.
Had his Sovereign the same ascendency over the European politics as Christina had during the negotiation of the Treaty of Munster, other States would admire, and Sweden be proud of, another Axel Oxenstiern. Count Fersen, who also has, and is worthy of, the confidence of his Prince, is a nobleman, the honour and pride of his rank.
He had fallen into a heavy, brooding silence, his head sunk on his breast, his wild hair falling forward like a mane, and his right hand clenched and resting on the table. "Sergius!" called Lotys. He did not answer. "He is in one of his far-away moods," said one of the men next to Axel Regor, "It is best not to disturb him." Paul Zouche, however, had no such scruples.
Axel was getting wearied again by now; his legs could hardly bear him, and seemed like giving up. Strange, he had been getting better by degrees, able to walk, as the life and warmth came back into his body. But now he must lean on Brede for support! It seemed to begin when Oline started talking about her wages; and then, when she was saving his life again, it was worse than ever.
"Yes, certainly; and nothing could be more delightful." "Well, take my arm, Axel, and let us follow the windings of the shore." I eagerly accepted, and we began to coast along this new sea. On the left huge pyramids of rock, piled one upon another, produced a prodigious titanic effect. Down their sides flowed numberless waterfalls, which went on their way in brawling but pellucid streams.
And the pair of them talk over things together, and each is glad of a talk with the other. "What's the news down village?" asks Axel. "Why, nothing much," says Sivert. "There's a new man coming to take up land, so they say." A new man nothing in that; 'twas only Sivert's way of putting it. New men came now every year or so, to take up land; there were five new holdings now below Breidablik.
What about that child? Did you drown it?" "Drown it?" "Ay. It's been in the water." "Ho, so you've seen it? You've been " "sniffing at it," she was going to say, but dared not; Axel was not to be played with just then, by his looks. "You've been and found it?" "I saw it had been in the water." "Ay," said she, "and well it might. 'Twas born in the water; I slipped in and couldn't get up again."
But there's little pride in Axel now, no more than he'll give in that he was wrong after all, and maybe not all clear in his head. And what's he to do with the ax now 'tis there? He cannot stir, and Oline has to cut him free herself. Oh, Oline has wielded an ax before that day; had axed off many a load of firing in her life.
But she never killed any of the cattle, and Axel never found her standing over him with uplifted knife in the middle of the night. Only once it happened that they came to talk again of the body in the wood. Axel still insisted that it ought to have been buried in the churchyard, in consecrated ground; but she maintained as before that her way was good enough.
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