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Updated: May 24, 2025
There was only something strange about her, as if she were looking for something far away, or listening, or waiting, or dreaming. The wind came from the west over the low plains. But on the high downs with the tall wrack-grass it had become dry and full of sand and somewhat tired, so that when it came to Krarup Kro it had quite enough to do to open the stable-doors.
And there came many to Krarup Kro folk from the surrounding district, who gathered in the autumn gloamings, and sat in the inn parlour drinking coffee-punches, usually without any definite object; and also travellers and wayfarers, who tramped in, blue and weather-beaten, to get something hot to carry them on to the next inn.
But when the west wind had travelled a long way it became a north wind, then an east wind, then a south wind, and at last it again came over the sea as a west wind, dashed in upon the downs, and sighed long and strangely among the dry clusters of heather. But then a pair of wondering gray eyes were lacking in Krarup Kro, and a blue serge dress that had grown too tight.
And the innkeeper's wife whined and whimpered more than ever. She could not understand it nobody could understand it except Anders the post-boy and one beside. But when old folks wished to give the young a really serious admonition, they used to begin thus: 'There was once in Krarup Kro a girl named Karen My sister was going to Modum.
After these achievements the wind plunged down into the heather, ran along the deep ditches, and took a substantial grip of the mail-coach, which it met half a mile from the town. 'He is always in a devil of a hurry to get to Krarup Kro! growled Anders, the postboy, cracking his whip over the perspiring horses.
Meanwhile the wind swept low along the ground, and sighed long and strangely in the dry clusters of heather. The moon was full, but so densely beclouded that only a pale hazy shimmer hovered over the night. Behind Krarup Kro lay a peat moss, dark with black turf-stacks and dangerous deep pits.
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