This transcription is based on two sets of images posted by the
HathiTrust Digital Library. The first, digitized by Google from a copy
made available by the University of Minnesota, is available at:
hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951001153970w
The second, digitized by the Internet Archive from a copy made
available by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is
available at:
hdl.handle.net/2027/uiuo.ark:/13960/t7fq9th7f
Images of this copy are also available through the Internet
Archive:
archive.org/details/poweroflie00boje
Note that the scans of the copy from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign do not include the introduction by Hall Craine.
The following changes were made to the printed text:
- p. 2: “I shall soon be keeping nalf the parish,” he
thought.—Changed “nalf” to “half”.
- p. 45: she turned and threw her arms about, his neck.—Deleted the
comma after “about”.
- p. 100: He had at first, therefore, half unconciously
wished—Changed “unconciously” to “unconsciously”.
- p. 100: whether they called themselves farmers or mercnants—Changed
“mercnants” to “merchants”.
- p. 120: ‘But suppose sentence is passed on Wangen—Changed opening
single quotation mark to a double quotation mark.
- p. 120: And he seated himself upon the edge of her bed. with the
light in his hand.—Deleted the period after “bed”.
- p. 136: And was Einar now going up to con- contradict her before
all these people?—Deleted “con-”, which occurs at the end of a
line.
- p. 177: “Talk hold of my hand, Henry!”–Changed “Talk” to
“Take”.
- p. 192: “Here it s Karen!”—Changed to “Here it is, Karen!”
- p. 219: a little way up the the table—Deleted the second “the”.
- p. 230: Mountain and lake lay in a great calm peace—Added a period
to the end of the sentence.
Inconsistencies such as the two different spellings of “mustn’t”
and the inconsistent italicization of “sæter” have been preserved.