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Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian by Unknown
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the ground. In it he read:

"The high-seat pillars have come on shore.

"--'GEB.'--"

One says well, that a man's love or season of courtship lasts till
his thirtieth year, and after that time he is ambitious; but it is
not always so, and with Counsellor Bagger it was in all respects
the contrary. His ambition was already, if not fully reached, yet
in some degree satisfied. The faculty of love had not been at all
employed, and the letter came like a spark in a powder-cask; it
ran glowing through every nerve. The youthful half of his soul,
which had slept within him, wakened with such sudden,
revolutionary strength, that the other half soul, which until now
had borne rule, became completely subject; yes, so wholly, that
Counsellor Bagger went past the court-house and came down in
Court-house Street without noticing it. Suddenly he missed the big
building with the pillars and inscription: "With law shall Lands
be built;" looked around confused, and turned back.

So much was he still at this moment Criminal Examiner, that among
the first thoughts or feelings which the mysterious letter excited
in him was this: It can be a trick, a foolery. But in the next
moment it occurred to him, that never to any living soul had he
mentioned his bold figure of the high-seat pillars, and still less
revealed the mysterious, to him so valued, syllable--geb--. No
doubt could exist: the fine, perfumed paper, the delicate lady
handwriting, and the few significant words testified, that the
billet which once in youthful, sanguine longing he had entrusted
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