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Let the wind speak. It knows more tales and adventures than all of us put together. Hearken now to what it is about to relate. It blew a tremendous blast: that was a prelude to its story. "There lay close to the Great Belt an old castle with thick red walls," said the wind. "I knew every stone in it. I had seen them before, when they were in Marshal Stig's castle at the Næs. It was demolished.
'Ida and Ana Dorothea walked one on each side of him: Johanna turned round in the gateway, but what was the good of that? nothing could make their luck turn. She looked at the red stones of what had once been Marsk Stig's Castle. Was she thinking of his daughters? "The elder took the younger by the hand, And out they roamed to a far-off land." Was she thinking of that song?
'Close to the Great Belt stands an old mansion with thick red walls, says the wind. 'I know every stone of it; I knew them before when they formed part of Marsk Stig's Castle on the Ness. It had to come down. The stones were used again, and made a new wall of a new castle in another place Borreby Hall as it now stands.
"Idé and Anna Dorthea walked on each side of their father; Johanné turned round at the gate. Why did she do so? Fortune would not turn. She gazed at the red stones of the wall, the stones from Marshal Stig's castle, and she thought of his daughters: 'The eldest took the younger's hand, And out in the wide world they went. She thought upon that song.
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