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Kirsten Mads ' daughter , what is it that you know of this matter in which Morten Bruus accuses your rector ? Tell the truth , and the truth only , as you would tell it before the judgment seat of the Almighty . The law will demand from you that you shall later repeat your testimony under oath . '' The woman told the following story : The day on which Niels Bruus was said to have run away from the rectory , she and her daughter were passing along the road near the rectory garden a little after the noon hour . She heard some one calling and saw that it was Niels Bruus looking out through the garden hedge . He asked the daughter if she did not want some nuts and told the women that the rector had ordered him to dig in the garden , but that he did not take the command very seriously and would much rather eat nuts . At that moment they heard a door open in the house and Niels said , `` Now I 'm in for a scolding . ''