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"Hoful it's been these last three na held the lantern so that he could see to buckle the straps "It don't seeht that we must all be so miserable Why do we all have to be punished? Seeain"

Ivar expressed hi He stooped and took a sandburr frona asked suddenly, "will you tell o barefoot? All the time I lived here in the house I wanted to ask you Is it for a penance, or what?"

"No, sister It is for the indulgence of the body Fro, rebellious body, and have been subject to every kind of teed It was necessary to make some allowances; and the feet, as I understand it, are free members There is no divine prohibition for theue, the eyes, the heart, all the bodily desires we are coe the in filth when na did not laugh She looked thoughtful as she followed Ivar out to the wagon-shed and held the shafts up for him, while he backed in the ood friend to the mistress, Ivar," she murmured

"And you, God be with you," replied Ivar as he clambered into the cart and put the lantern under the oilcloth lap-cover "Now for a ducking,up the reins

As they e off the thatch, struck the nantly, then struck out bravely on the soft ground, slipping back again and again as she climbed the hill to the main road Between the rain and the darkness Ivar could see very little, so he let Eht direction When the ground was level, he turned her out of the dirt road upon the sod, where she was able to trot without slipping

Before Ivar reached the graveyard, three miles from the house, the storm had spent itself, and the downpour had died into a soft, dripping rain The sky and the land were a dark sether, like taves When Ivar stopped at the gate and swung out his lantern, a white figure rose froson's white stone