"Not quite," Katharine replied. "It makes one think more mercifully of her."
"Why, that is precisely the sort of thing he says!" Knutty exclaimed.
"Is it?" said Katharine, flushing up to her very eyes. And at that moment there came a sound of sweet melancholy music from the hillside.
"That is Gerda," whispered Tante. "That is one of her favourite Swedish songs—how sweet and melancholy it is."
They listened, arrested and entranced. The stillness of the evening and the pureness of the air made a silent accompaniment to Gerda's beautiful voice.
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Allt under himmelens fäste
Der sitta stjernor små
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