"But there is one thing I can't understand," he thought after a while, "and that is how people can stand like Wangen with a calm face and lie in court. God help those who have no more conscience than to do it!"
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This transcription is based on two sets of images posted by the HathiTrust Digital Library. The first, digitized by Google from a copy made available by the University of Minnesota, is available at:
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001153970w
The second, digitized by the Internet Archive from a copy made available by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is available at:
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t7fq9th7f
Images of this copy are also available through the Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/poweroflie00boje
Note that the scans of the copy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign do not include the introduction by Hall Craine.
The following changes were made to the printed text:
-- p. 2: "I shall soon be keeping nalf the parish," he thought.--Changed "nalf" to "half".
-- p. 45: she turned and threw her arms about, his neck.--Deleted the comma after "about".
-- p. 100: He had at first, therefore, half unconciously wished--Changed "unconciously" to "unconsciously".
-- p. 100: whether they called themselves farmers or mercnants--Changed "mercnants" to "merchants".
-- p. 120: 'But suppose sentence is passed on Wangen--Changed opening single quotation mark to a double quotation mark.
-- p. 120: And he seated himself upon the edge of her bed. with the light in his hand.--Deleted the period after "bed".
-- p. 136: And was Einar now going up to con- contradict her before all these people?--Deleted "con-", which occurs at the end of a line.
-- p. 177: "Talk hold of my hand, Henry!"--Changed "Talk" to "Take".
-- p. 192: "Here it s Karen!"--Changed to "Here it is, Karen!"
-- p. 219: a little way up the the table--Deleted the second "the".
-- p. 230: Mountain and lake lay in a great calm peace--Added a period to the end of the sentence.
Inconsistencies such as the two different spellings of "mustn't" and the inconsistent italicization of "sæter" have been preserved.