"
"Thank you, my dear Magde. Ragnar shall learn all that you have done for
his old father. Kiss Nanna, poor little innocent, for me, and tell her
that she must not come here, for it will only make her heart more heavy
and sad."
A moment later, and the creaking doors resounded throughout the ruins,
the prisoner was again alone.
But once more did he hear a dear voice, for when Magde arrived at the
outside, she remembered with a feeling of uneasiness, that her youngest
child had not been blessed by its grandfather. In the haste of
departure, the little one had been entirely forgotten; but as it was
impossible for her to leave the prison with the dear child unblessed,
she stood beneath the grated window, and exclaimed:
"Father, dear father, please look through the window, and I will hold
up the baby for you, that you may give it your blessing."
Immediately the old man's white head appeared at the window, and Magde
held the child aloft in her hands towards him.
And now everything was performed rightly; the last farewell glances were
exchanged, and then Magde and her children disappeared from the old
man's sight.
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