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On the summit of a steep declivity a high pole is erected, to which hangs suspended the hat of the unfortunate King Erik.
He had only time to hide in the inner room, which was separated from the dressing-room by a curtain. Christine entered, took off her mask with a weary movement and flung it on the table. She sighed and let her pretty head fall into her two hands. What was she thinking of? Of Raoul? No, for Raoul heard her murmur: "Poor Erik!" At first, he thought he must be mistaken.
Then came tidings of an inroad of the Sclavs, and Erik was commissioned to suppress it with eight ships, since Frode as yet seemed inexperienced in war. Erik, loth ever to flinch from any manly undertaking, gladly undertook the business and did it bravely.
Then Earl Erik backed out with the Iron Ram, while the seamen on his other ships cut away the lashings that had bound Olaf's outermost vessel to her neighbour, and drew the conquered craft away into the rear, leaving the next ship exposed. Again Earl Erik advanced with the Ram and crashed as before into the exposed broadside of the outermost ship.
However, she persisted in treating him with a disdainful coldness, which no courtesy or politeness on his part could overcome. Her opportunities of displaying her disdain were fortunately rare, for Erik was always either out-of-doors, or else busy in his own little room. Time passed in the most peaceful manner, and without any notable incidents.
Yet because he was again accused by one single person of having checked the advance of the Swedish army at Bähüs, Erik invited him to his palace at Svartsjö, gave him an honourable place at his royal table, and let him depart in apparent good faith for Stockholm, where, on his arrival, the heralds were ordered to proclaim in the streets: "Niels Sture is a traitor to his country!"
"I trust to this," he concluded, "that I am in a free town, on whose word, when once given, I should be able to depend." This appeal won his case with the senate, and Sir Erik was obliged to return without his ward.
"And there are cages of wild animals and birds too," added Birger, "polar bears and owls and eagles and reindeer " "That is what I want to see, the reindeer," interrupted Erik; so when the steamer reached the quay at the Deer Park, the children went at once to find the Laplander's tent in Skansen.
"I have become a small-town woman. Absolute. Typical. Modest and moral and safe. Protected from life. GENTEEL! The Village Virus the village virtuousness. My hair just scrambled together. What can Erik see in that wedded spinster there? He does like me! Because I'm the only woman who's decent to him!
One of the lover's agents had said that the queen of England would never consent unless Erik in person were able to win her heart, and Prince John reported her as saying that, "though she had no desire for marriage, she could not answer what she might do if she saw Erik himself."
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