United States or Tajikistan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Half as if he were not ill-pleased after all to find his land valued at a big price, after the work he had done. As for the hundred Daler, he could manage to pay that off, no doubt, in course of time. He made no further business about it; he could go on working as he had done hitherto, clearing and cultivating, fetching loads of timber from the untended woodlands.
"You got two hundred Daler!" shouts Inger, stopping again with a "Ptro!" "I did yes. And I've paid for my land a long while back," said Isak. "Well you are a wonder, you are!" Truly, it was a pleasure to see Inger all surprised, and make her a rich wife. Isak did not forget to add that he had no debts nor owings at the store or anywhere else.
Those thousand Daler well, 'twas a gift from Heaven, to be kept intact. What else should he do? His ordinary outgoings were more than covered by the produce of his fields and stock. Eleseus, of course, knew better; he had advised his father to put the money in the Bank. Well, perhaps that was the best, but Isak had put off doing it for the present perhaps it would never be done at all.
And he had not only Geissler's two hundred untouched, but more than that a hundred and sixty Daler more. Ay, they might well be thankful to God! They spoke of Geissler again; Inger was able to tell how he had helped to get her set free.
Simply had to leave it as it was. That's just one thing about her. But I could tell you many more. And as for the five daler to the boatman she gave him the money herself. If you had done it, she would have flung her arms round you and kissed you on the spot. You should have been the lordly cavalier that paid an extravagant sum for a worn-out shoe that would have suited her ideas; she expected it.
He had barely attained his majority, when the young king was called upon to judge between another great noble and a widow whom he sued for 9000 daler, money he claimed to have lent to her husband. In proof he laid before the judges two bonds bearing the signatures of husband and wife. The widow denounced them as forgeries, but the court decided that she must pay.
The children like it." Isak went with him up over the hills; it was firm, good going on the higher ground, easier than below. Isak received a whole Daler. In that manner was it Lensmand Geissler left the place, and he did not come back. No great loss, folk said, he being looked on as a doubtful personage, an adventurer.
"As long as I can manage to pay ..." said Isak. "And for ten years." Isak looked up, half frightened. "Those are the terms the Department insists. Even then, it's no price really for all that land, cleared and cultivated as it is now." Isak had the ten Daler for that year it was the money he had got for his loads of wood, and for the cheeses Inger had laid by.
She should not succeed; I was not going to have that to blush for. And I said loudly and distinctly: "I must point out to all here that this is either a mistake or a lie. I have never so much as thought of giving the boatman five daler for your shoe. I ought to have done so, perhaps, but up to now it has not been done." "Whereupon we shall continue the dance," she said, frowning.
He carried himself upright as ever, and looked as if he had several hundreds of Daler in his pockets. It livened them up and brightened everything to have him there; not that he made any boisterous fun, but a lively talker, that he was. "Fine place, Sellanraa, splendid place," he said. "And now there's others coming up one after another, since you've started, Isak. I counted five myself.
Word Of The Day