It was a cold, biting wind out on the ice.
For a while he saw his own shadow, with his hands in his coat pockets, moving away, while the moon sailed through the clouds--the lamp shone so warmly on her face--
Three days afterwards, towards evening, Inger-Johanna stood at the window looking out. Her breast heaved with strong emotion.
Grip had died of pneumonia down at the Lövviggaard.
She had been down and taken care of him till now she had come home--talked with him, heard herself live in his wild raving, and had received his last intelligent look before it was quenched....
The moon was so cold and clear in the heavens. The whole landscape with the mountains and all the great pure forms shone magically white in the frost--white as in the snow-fields of the lofty mountains....
"The power of the spirit is great," she said, sighing in sorrowful, yet trembling meditation--"he gave me something to live on."
PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION
WILLIAM HENRY SCHOFIELD, Professor of Comparative Literature in Harvard University, _Chairman_
WILLIAM WITHERLE LAWRENCE, Professor of English in Columbia University
HENRY GODDARD LEACH, Secretary of the Foundation
I. _Comedies by Holberg: Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus_
Translated by OSCAR JAMES CAMPBELL, JR., and FREDERIC SCHENCK
II. _Poems by Tegnér: The Children of the Lord's Supper and Frithiof's Saga_
Translated by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW and W. LEWERY BLACKLEY
III. _Poems and Songs by Björnstjerne Björnson_
Translated in the original metres, with an Introduction and Notes, by ARTHUR HUBBELL PALMER
An historical play, translated, with an Introduction, by EDWIN BJÖRKMAN
Translated from old Icelandic, with an Introduction and Notes, by ARTHUR GILCHRIST BRODEUR
VI. _Modern Icelandic Plays by Jóhann Sigurjónsson: Eyvind of the Hills and The Hraun Farm_
VII. _Marie Grubbe: A Lady of the Seventeenth Century by J. P. Jacobsen_
An historical romance, translated, with an Introduction, by HANNA ASTRUP LARSEN
VIII. _Arnljot Gelline by Björnstjerne Björnson_
A Norse epic, translated by WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE
IX. _Anthology of Swedish Lyrics, from 1750 to 1915_
Selections from the greatest of Swedish lyrists, translated by CHARLES WHARTON STORK