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LADY INGER OF ÖSTRAT.
[ACT IV.
What is that? Music and singing. It seems to come from Elina's chamber. Ay, 'tis she that is singing. Then she is still awake
[A thought seems to strike him.
Elina!—Ah, if that could be! Were it possible to—And why should I not? Am I not still myself? Says not the song:—
Fair maidens a-many they sigh and they pine:
"Ah God, that Nils Lykke were mine, mine, mine."
And she—? Elina Gyldenlöve shall set me free!
[Goes quickly but stealthily towards the first door on the left.
