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Updated: May 24, 2025
Miss Ludvigsen had written an unrhymed song about true love, which was sung at the feast, and Louisa eclipsed all the other bridesmaids. The newly-married couple took up their quarters in the nest discovered by Mrs.
Olsen. "Yes, I can't understand why it shouldn't be this very autumn," exclaimed the elder Miss Ludvigsen, who was an enthusiast for ideal love. "Oh, yes!" cried Miss Louisa, who was certain to be one of the bridesmaids. "But Sören says he can't afford it," answered the bride elect, somewhat timidly. "Can't afford it!" repeated Miss Ludvigsen. "To think of a young girl using such an expression!
Thus had this marriage fared, and thus did this couple toil onward. They both dragged at the same heavy load; but did they drag in unison? It is sad, but it is true: when the manger is empty, the horses bite each other. There was a great chocolate-party at the Misses Ludvigsen's all maiden ladies. "For married women are so prosaic," said the elder Miss Ludvigsen. "Uh, yes!" cried Louisa.
When she held up the little golden-locked angel for the admiration of her lady friends, she was beautiful with the beauty of perfect maternal happiness; and Miss Ludvigsen said: "Here is love in its ideal form." But Mrs. Olsen's "nest" soon became too small; the family increased while the income stood still. She was daily confronted by new claims, new cares, and new duties.
Then the elder Miss Ludvigsen, with a certain solemnity, expressed herself as follows: "I can tell you what was at fault in that marriage, for I know the circumstances thoroughly. Even before her marriage there was something calculating, something almost prosaic in Marie's nature, which is entirely foreign to true, ideal love.
Has not heaven richly blessed them with healthy, sturdy children? These these are their true wealth! And if their hearts had been filled with true, ideal love, then then " Miss Ludvigsen came to a momentary standstill. "What then?" asked a courageous young lady. "Then," continued Miss Ludvigsen, loftily, "then we should certainly have seen a very different lot in life assigned to them."
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