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Hardly had the bustle of departure quieted down at Rowan Tree House when a fresh anxiety arose. Herr Sivertsen, who had for some time been out of health, was seized with a fatal illness, and for three days and nights Frithiof was unable to leave him; on the third night the old Norseman passed quietly away, conscious to the last minute, and with his latest breath inveighing against the degeneracy of the age.
"Frithiof is a rare exception," he said, turning his dim eyes toward Sigrid, who stood by the bedside. "And to him I leave all that I have. As for the general run of young men nowadays-I wash my hands of them-a worthless set-a degenerate-"