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e, but the pastor only a small and poor one. But poor as they were at the small parsonage, they had been charitable enough to
rying, and she had told him that her blind grandfather was dead, and that she had no relatives left. She now travelled with a couple of acrobats,
and Mrs. Blomgren, and offered to take the child home with him. The old acrobats began to weep, and said that although the girl was entirely unfitted for the profession, they would so very much like to keep her; but at the same time they th
, but as she grew older she developed a strong inclination to lose herself in dreams and fancies. She lived in a world of visions, and in the middle of the day she could let her work fall and be lost in dreams. But t
now what was the matter with her, for this happened long ago, when there was no doctor at
that He would take her away from this wo
ight she felt that she grew stiff and cold all over her body, and a heavy
at they wrapped her in her shroud and laid her in her coffin, but she felt no fear of being buried, although she was st
at she was not really dead and would not bury her. Life must have be
She was conveyed to the church, carried to
ustom at Raglanda. The mourners had gone into church after the funeral, and the coffin was left in the open g
ightest movement to show that she was alive, even if she had wanted to; but even if she had been abl
either the use of her mind nor of her senses. It was only that part of the
would be for her to awake when the grave was filled in. S
if there is anything in the whole wide
, and the handkerchief which had been placed over her face, became transparent, and she
ese things,' she said, and she c
but instead she saw quite distinctly a little
little angel of Go
thou art lying here doing nothing, I would like
anything she had ever heard before. It was more like a stringed instrument;
as still living, that thou once met a young student, who went with thee
ce was lighte
she said. 'Ever since that time no day ha
en thou hast not
when I have not
rest him so well,' said the angel. 'Then
ad girl felt all the happiness of lov
'I am afraid to live
lay, here and there, objects which at the first glance looked like pieces of rock, but when she examined them more closely, she saw they were the immense living animals of fairy tales, with huge claws and great jaw
he angel in unspeakable fear. 'Tell him that
' said the angel with his clear vo
fort after the other to raise herself, but the impotence of death bound her. But then at last, at last, she felt her heart begin
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