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A letter from Stockholm had announced that he would arrive that evening. Therefore Otto and Vanda could not sit still. Every moment they ran to the door, to see if he was coming. Dame Katrina, although she reproved them for their impatience, felt in the same way herself. Mr.
Almost immediately she returned to us, her cheeks pink from her exertions. "Now," she began, "I want to hear all about it the nicest teachers, the chums who have taken my place." The voice in the next room boomed out again. "Ka-tri-na!" it bellowed. "My pipe! It is up-stairs." Katrina departed for the pipe.
Then of course Katrina and Jan had to tell them all about the travelling merchant's visit, and when they learned how it had come about they were all glad that Fortuna had thought of taking a little peep into the humble home down in the Ashdales. There were sons of landed proprietors who declared that if this girl had been of less humble origin they would have proposed to her then and there.
It was some little time before he comprehended what Jan alluded to. "Why, that was just a little whimsey of mine," he returned presently. Then Jan went very close to the old man. "Anyhow it was something pleasant to listen to," he said. "You might have told us more, perhaps, if Katrina hadn't been so mistrustful?" "Oh, yes," replied the seine-maker.
My memory of Katrina goes back to the morning when, at the tender age of ten, she was violently precipitated into our classroom. The motive power, we subsequently learned, was her brother Jacob, slightly older than Katrina, whose nervous system had abruptly refused the ordeal of accompanying her into the presence of the teacher.
Whitfield thinks a sight of his writings; he sez "they dignify the commonplace, and make common things seem oncommon." Katrina, Arthur Bonniecastle, Miss Gilbert, Timothy Titcomb the philosopher, all seemed to walk up and down with Whitfield there.
Time and distance, we reminded Katrina, could be bridged by letters, and Katrina responded nobly to the hint. She wrote every day at first, and we consumed most of our waking hours in inditing our replies.
She intended to place them in the grave with Katrina, thinking the old woman would like to have with her some reminder of Jan. Presently Glory Goldie turned to the old mistress of Falla and asked her for the imperial regalia, and then she stood the long stick up against Jan's coffin and set the cap on top of the stick.
All the same, there were tears of joy in Jan's eyes and he had hard work to keep his voice steady. After the well-learned greeting had been recited the Emperor rapped three times on the floor with his imperial stick for silence and attention, whereupon he began to sing in a thin, squeaky voice. Glory Goldie had drawn close to Katrina.
A silence fell upon the group that John and Katrina felt to be painful without understanding why. Patton and Sydney were burning with sympathy for Bob. It was Patton who broke the quiet. "And they drink it from a dipper!" The ensuing laughter snapped the strain of embarrassment. "We have another class of people that we haven't described to Katrina," said Sidney. "The resident foreigners."
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