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At the same time, the organist's wife, Thea
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Ekenstedt, of the Löwensköld family from Hedeby, later married and living in Karlstad. She is a beautiful, educated woman, but ignores her husband and daughters in favor of her son Karl-Arthur, for whom she has enormous hopes. He is expected to become
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Schagerström, who witnessed a large part of the events, and who also sees the colonel as a mother figure, largely understands what is going on, even if he does not have all the details. The wedding is no fun business for him, but he softens when he sees how happy the people at the mill are to have a
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becoming the great man they both know he can be, but he himself has no such plans. He has naïve dreams of living in poverty to get closer to God, and plans to get married. When the rich mill owner
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reconcile the two again, at any cost. The price she has to pay is an agreement with Thea
Sundler. Thea is able to persuade Karl-Arthur to travel back to Karlstad and reconcile, but to do so she demands that Charlotte disappear from Karl-Arthur's life - she must marry Schagerström.
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a great man, but when he studies in
Uppsala the fine results do not materialize and he instead becomes deeply religious through his friendship with a pietist, which tears at the rest of the family as his strict views almost ruin his sister's wedding.
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Charlotte takes it all. Charlotte also interrupts his attempt to leave on the wedding night and objects to his plan to file for divorce as soon as possible. She doesn't love him, but she knows she can.
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drives Karl-Arthur and
Charlotte apart. Karl-Arthur breaks the engagement and swears that he will marry the first woman he meets on the road, which happens to be the valley girl Anna Svärd.
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Charlotte's joke and after some thought decides to actually propose to her, but she gives him the basket. He travels his way again deeply impressed by her.
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