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Fru Holle!" did she say very loudly and distinctly the rest seemed to die away on the wind; and she certainly did pronounce the rest of the sentence so indistinctly, that Anthon was sure she had not really added the other words.
No it must be something else; it must have been something which had occurred in Arendal. She had spoken of Fru Beck's unhappy married life with a certain significance, as if it bore upon their own. That was evidently it she had been talking to Fru Beck; she must have been put up to it by her old friend.
But when the attack was over, he asked me if I couldn't hear that the cough was much better. What do you think I ought to do?" "Nothing," the father replied once more. Keith was ready to start for school next morning when he heard Hilda utter a startled cry in the parlour. "Fru Wellander! Fru Wellander!" she called.
As long as society maintains its present attitude, an unmarried mother should be counted guiltless even if she does kill her child." Here a slight murmur was heard from the presiding justice. "Or at any rate, her punishment should be merely nominal," said Fru Heyerdahl.
That night, after the children had trooped down the stairs and away to their homes, and after Gerda and Birger had said good-night and gone to their beds, the father and mother sat by the table, talking over plans for the summer. "I suppose we shall start for Dalarne the day after school closes," suggested Fru Ekman.
He was most ready to appease her, most ready to show her everything, for he felt himself to blame, though he certainly thought that she might have understood; but her presence would have marred their tete-a-tete; he would have been embarrassed enough if she had acquiesced! The Dean, with his wife and daughter, came the following Sunday to return Fru Kaas's visit.
"Well, of course But you might have stayed on a bit longer; the cows will be going out to spring pasture now, and we should have had more milk." That was all we said about it, and then she went back to her work. Bravo, Fru Ingeborg. You're true-blue.
Elizabeth showed her into Mother Kirstine's comfortable little kitchen, where a saucepan of broth for her sick aunt was simmering over the fire. She invited her visitor to take a seat. It was so quiet that they could hear the watch ticking in the next room where her aunt was sleeping. Neither spoke for a moment or two. Then Fru Beck asked in a low voice "How is your aunt, Elizabeth?"
He came to the lodging-house to see me, and said: "I want you to come back with me, if you please, and get your money. And there's a letter come for you by the post." When we stepped into the office, Fru Falkenberg was there. I was taken aback at finding her there. I made a bow and stood over by the door. "Sit down, won't you?" said the engineer, going to the table for my letter. "Here you are.
An' ole Ahab he march a long ways off, and fit a big battle, an' tuk a hull lot of prisoners; an' cum a-marchin' back fru de streets of Babylon, wid de brass bans a-playin', and de stars an' stripes a-floatin'; an' Bersheby she wuz a-standin' on de house-top, and she holler out, "'How did you cum out wid' em, old Ahab?
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