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But you are not in all points your own master? There be other duties and other affairs?

Ay, that is just the rub. Were I to choose, I would rest me at Östråt at least the winter through; I have for the most part led a soldier's life, and

Your health, Sir!

A soldier's life? H'm!

Nay, what I would have said is this: I have long been eager to see Lady Inger Gyldenlöve, whose fame has spread so wide. She must be a queenly woman,—is't not so?The one thing I like not in her, is that she is so cursedly slow to take open action.

Open action?

Ay, ay, you understand me; I mean she is so loath to take a hand in driving the foreign masters out of the land.