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He paused between each stroke of the oars, soothed by the gentle motion; the boat glided on, he had not concerned himself whither, when he heard from behind the sound of oars which was not the echo of his own. The strokes succeeded each other at regular intervals. He turned. At that moment Fru Kaas came out on to the terrace with her big binocular.
It was one evening before dinner Mother Kirstine had fallen into a quiet sleep, and Elizabeth was sitting by her bedside, when she saw Fru Beck pass the window. Elizabeth knew she would come in, and sat with beating heart waiting for her knock at the door. Fru Beck must have stood a long while in the porch, for some minutes passed before the latch was stirred.
Fru Astrida sighed and shook her head, and feared the poor child would never grow up to be anything on this earth. Great as had been the difference at first between him and Richard, it was now far greater.
"But you can't get Fru Falkenberg," she says, beginning again. "It's simply hopeless." "No, I can't get her. Nor you either." "Are you speaking to Fru Falkenberg now again?" "No, it was to you this time." Pause. "Do you know I was in love with you? Yes, when I was at home." "This is getting quite amusing," said I, shifting up on the sofa. "Oh, we'll manage Bewer, never fear."
Den Moye flogged him till he war 'most dead, and arter dat chained him up in de ole cabin and gabe him 'most nuffin' to eat. De Cunnel war gwine to take Sam to Charles'on and sell him, but sumhow he got a file and sawed fru de chain and got 'way in de night to de 'still. When de Oberseer cum dar in de mornin', Sam jump on him and 'most kill him.
By stealth it had to be; by stealth Lucie had procured them; by stealth she gave them to him; by stealth they were read; by stealth she took them back again. This reading made him a little absent-minded, but otherwise nothing betrayed his flights into literature: to be sure, they were not very wonderful. Fru Kaas noticed her son's flirtation, and smiled with the rest over his progress in French.
Four or five times a day did Richard ask Osmond and Fru Astrida if they thought Alberic would return, and it was a great satisfaction to him to find that every one agreed that it would be very foolish in the Dame de Montemar to refuse so good an offer, only Fru Astrida could not quite believe she would part with her son.
Fru Heyerdahl came and lectured her, lent her books and a fool for her pains. Barbro had lived in Bergen and read the papers and been to the theatre! She was no innocent lamb from the countryside ... But Fru Heyerdahl must have grown suspicious at last. One day she comes up at three in the morning to the maids' room and calls: "Barbro!" "Yes," answers Cook. "It's Barbro I want. Isn't she there?
"Would you dare to knock on the side of the hill and cry, 'Fru Holle! Fru Holle! open the gate; here is Tannhäuser? But Anthon dared not do it. Molly dared, however; yet only these words "Fru Holle!
Otherwise the days passed as usual, and Fru Kongstrup was continually giving herself up to little drinking-bouts and to grief. At such times she would weep over her wasted life; and if he were at home would follow him with her accusations from room to room, until he would order the carriage and take flight, even in the middle of the night.
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