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And as long as he had money, he stood treat as far as he was able; at a festive evening held to celebrate his return to town, he ordered half a dozen bottles of beer, and had them opened sparingly, one after another. "What twenty Ore for the waitress?" said his friends; "ten's quite enough." "Doesn't do to be stingy," said Eleseus.
Eleseus is used to hotels; he makes himself at hojne, hangs up his coat and stick on the wall, and calls for coffee; as for something to eat, his father has things in a basket. Katrine brings the coffee. "Pay? I'll not hear of it," says Brede. "I've had many a bite and sup at Sellanraa; and as for Eleseus, I'm in his books already. Don't take it, Katrine."
When the cat had kittens, it was he who brought her milk, because she hissed too much for Eleseus. Sivert was never tired of standing looking at the box full of movement, a nest of tumbling furry paws.
Well, was there not a sigh would not the roof fall down? Eleseus was the first to smile. "Let's see you're called after your Uncle Sivert, aren't you?" he asked softly. And little Sivert answered as softly again: "That's so. But I made you a present of all that might come to me after him." "And how much was it?" "Between five and ten thousand."
"But we've these stoneworker folk to pay, and a deal of things ... write and ask if he wouldn't rather come back here and lend a hand." And Inger wrote, but Eleseus did not care about coming home again; no, no sense in making another journey all to no purpose; he would rather starve.
He had put on those spectacles time and again that day to study the instructions, without making out a word; Eleseus had to help him with that. Eyah, Herregud, 'twas a good thing, no doubt, to be book-learned. And, by way of humbling himself, Isak determines to give up his plan of making Eleseus a tiller of soil in the wilds; he will never say a word of it again.
Eleseus had some notions of accounts, of course, and Uncle Sivert's money-chest, the famous bottle-case, had been opened and examined while he was there; he had had to go through all the accounts and make up a balance sheet.
There's the new horse getting loose," and he swings out of the door and hurries away. Oh, but he had himself taken care to let the new horse loose a while ago, and Sivert, the rascal, knew it too, as he stood outside watching his father, and smiling to himself. And, anyway, the horse was only in the rowens. Eleseus had got it over at last.
That wouldn't matter quite the reverse, indeed. But Barbro was up, sitting in the hut. She looked now as if she had suddenly lost all idea of being nice to him and making love Eleseus fancied Axel had perhaps got hold of her and warned her. "Here's the letter I promised you," he said. "Thank you," said she, and opened it, and read it through without seeming much moved.
"Ho, are you frightened of the dark that I mustn't go away?" says Sivert, trying a moment to be cheerful. He is away a moment, and comes back dressed, and with his father's food basket over his shoulder. As they go out, there is their father standing outside. "So you're going all that way, seems?" says Isak. "Ay," answered Eleseus; "but I'll be coming back again."
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