Jerusalem

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Lagerlöf Selma. Jerusalem

INTRODUCTION

BOOK ONE

THE INGMARSSONS

I

II

III

IV

BOOK TWO

AT THE SCHOOLMASTER'S

"AND THEY SAW HEAVEN OPEN"

KARIN, DAUGHTER OF INGMAR

IN ZION

THE WILD HUNT

HELLGUM

THE NEW WAY

BOOK THREE

LOSS OF "L'UNIVERS"

HELLGUM'S LETTER

THE BIG LOG

THE INGMAR FARM

HÖK MATTS ERICSSON

THE AUCTION

GERTRUDE

THE DEAN'S WIDOW

THE DEPARTURE OF THE PILGRIMS

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A young farmer was plowing his field one summer morning. The sun shone, the grass sparkled with dew, and the air was so light and bracing that no words can describe it. The horses were frisky from the morning air, and pulled the plow along as if in play. They were going at a pace quite different from their usual gait; the man had fairly to run to keep up with them.

The earth, as it was turned by the plow, lay black, and shone with moisture and fatness, and the man at the plow was happy in the thought of soon being able to sow his rye. "Why is it that I feel so discouraged at times and think life so hard?" he wondered. "What more does one want than sunshine and fair weather to be as happy as a child of Heaven?"

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Brita stopped and looked up at him. This was the first time he had intimated that he meant to take her home.

"I had a letter from father to-day. He says that you also think that I ought to go to America."

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