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the meantime rumours of the engagement, had spread from the Parsonage all over the district, and by mid-day it had reached Skibberup. At first the people did not put much faith in it, but



when it was discovered that the curate had been seen to go into Anders Jörgen's house in the morning and had not come out again, they began to waver. In the course of the last hour the most