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Tell me, poor soul!" and she turned with queenly forbearance to Lovisa, "is it for Britta's sake that you would burn the house she lives in? That is not wise! You cursed me the other day, and why? What have I done that you should hate me?" The old woman regarded her with steadfast, cruel eyes. "You are your mother's child!" she said. "I hated her I hate you!

Many of the above named also filled other offices. Among the names which appear in the records of the years as chairmen of committees, in addition to many of the above, are those of Miss Helen Varick Boswell, Dr. Clara McNaughton, Miss Nettie Lovisa White, Mrs. Katharine Reed Balentine and Miss Abby T. Nicholls. With the removal from the State of Mrs.

The girls had fair hair and large blue eyes, and were strong enough to be victorious in a wrestling contest with big boys. The sons helped their father on the farm. The names of the girls were: Engla Matilda, Serlotta Maria, and Kajsa Maria; the mother Lovisa Kristina; the father Carl; the sons were Nils and Erik. The big room was strange-looking. In one corner was the large open fireplace.

The hideous malevolence of Lovisa Elsland's nature had shown her that there may be bad Lutherans, the invariable tenderness displayed by the Gueldmars for her unrecognized, helpless and distraught son, had proved to her that there may be good heathens. Hearing thus suddenly of the bonde's death, she was strangely affected she could almost have wept.

Well! . . . Lovisa was always foremost among the girls of the village who watched me leave the Fjord, and however long or short a time I might be absent, she was certain to be on the shore when my ship came sailing home again.

"'Tis a strange thing," said one man, "that woman as strong in the fear of the Lord as Lovisa Elsland should call for one of the wicked to visit her on her death-bed." "Strange enough!" answered his neighbor, blinking over his pipe, and knocking down some of the icicles pendent from his roof. "But maybe it is to curse him with the undying curse of the godly."

She's cursed me ever since I can remember her, cursed me in and out from sunrise to sunset, but I'm no the worse for't as yet, an' it's dootful whether she's any the better." "And yet Lovisa Elsland used to be as merry and lissom a lass as ever stepped," said Gueldmar musingly. "I remember her well when both she and I were young.

It was difficult to ascertain whether the aged Lovisa was satisfied or wrathful, at the departure of the Gueldmars with her granddaughter Britta in their company she kept herself almost buried in her hut at Talvig, and saw no one but Ulrika, who seemed to grow more respectably staid than ever, and who, as a prominent member of the Lutheran congregation, distinguished herself greatly by her godly bearing and uncompromising gloom.

Of course there may be exceptions, but I tell you climatic influences have a great deal to do with the state of mind and morals. Now, take the example of that miserable old Lovisa Elsland. She is the victim of religious mania and religious mania, together with superstition of the most foolish kind, is common in Norway.

Yea, with the help of the Lord I shall " She stopped abruptly and fixed her eyes, glowing with fierce wrath, on Thelma. The girl met her evil glance with a gentle surprise. Lovisa smiled malignantly. "You know me, I think!" said Lovisa. "You have seen me before?" "Often," answered Thelma mildly. "I have always been sorry for you." "Sorry for me!" almost yelled the old woman.