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Pelle explained to him how matters stood. "Tell them at Uncle Kalle's that they must take little Maria back again. Anna ill-treats her. They are getting on well in other ways; now they want to buy a wagon and horses and set up as carriers." "Do they? Well, it's easy for those to get on who haven't any heart." Lasse sighed.
"So David was a buck like that, and yet he walked in the sight of God all the same! Well, God's long-suffering is great there's no mistake about that!" There was a knock at the outer door. It was one of Kalle's children with the message that grandmother would like to bid them good-bye before she passed away. "Then she can't have long to live," exclaimed Lasse.
He now understood Uncle Kalle's smile on all occasions; he had armed himself with it in order that life should not draw too deep furrows in his gentle nature. The poor man had been obliged to dull himself; he would simply bleed to death if he gave himself up to stern reality.
"It's just as if one had come upon a dozen of Brother Kalle's sort," he whispered to Pelle. Pelle smiled absently. Ellen was holding his hand in her lap and playing with his fingers. A telegram of congratulation came for Pelle from his Union, and this brought the conversation back to more serious matters.
"It's just as if one had come upon a dozen of Brother Kalle's sort," he whispered to Pelle. Pelle smiled absently. Ellen was holding his hand in her lap and playing with his fingers. A telegram of congratulation came for Pelle from his Union, and this brought the conversation back to more serious matters.
Pelle knew quite well that what had happened to Anna was looked upon as a great disgrace, and could not understand how Uncle Kalle could seem so happy. "Ah, yes," said Lasse, as they stumbled along among the stones. "Kalle's just like what he always was! He laughs where others would cry." It was too dark to go across the fields, so they took the quarry road south to get down to the high-road.
Lasse was delighted at the visit. "What a pleasant time we had with you the other evening!" said Lasse, taking his brother by the hand. "That's a long time ago now. But you must look in again one evening soon. Grandmother looks upon both of you with a favorable eye!" Kalle's eyes twinkled mischievously. "How is she, poor body? Has she at all got over the hurt to her eye?
Kalle's so free with his money." The old woman closed her eyes. She had tired herself out, after all. "Now I think we'll creep out into the other room, and let her be quiet," whispered Kalle, getting up; but at that she opened her eyes. "Are you going already?" she asked. "We thought you were asleep, grandmother," said Lasse.
"No, I don't suppose I shall sleep any more in this life; my eyes are so light, so light! Well, good-bye to you, Lasse and Pelle! May you be very, very happy, as happy as I've been. Maria was the only one death spared, but she's been a good daughter to me; and Kalle's been as good and kind to me as if I'd been his sweetheart.
Good parents who have brought them into the world with pain, and must toil hard, perhaps hunger and put up with much themselves, to get food and clothing for them! Oh, it's a shame! And you say their surname is Karlsson like ours, and that they live on the heath behind the stone-quarry? Then they must be brother Kalle's sons! Why, bless my soul, if I don't believe that's it!
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