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"Of course; why do you think Milde collects them? Where would be their sentimental value otherwise?" And the Journalist laughed heartily, happy to be able to twist even this word around. But the corpulent Milde wrapped his corsets together and said: "This is a little specialty of mine, a talent But what the dickens are you all gaping at?
"I am sorry to have to leave at once; I have to No; my object in applying was an entirely different one; I'll tell you about it later," he added in order to hide his disappointment. Irgens went home. So Milde had been chosen! That was the way Norway rewarded her talents. Here he had hurled his inspired lyric in their faces, and they did not even know what it was! Whom had they preferred?
Paulsberg and his wife arrived; they moved the tables together and formed a circle. Milde stood treat; he still had money left from the first half of the subsidy. Paulsberg attacked Gregersen at once because of the Gazette's change of front. Hadn't he himself, a short time ago, written a rather pointed article in the paper? Had they entirely forgotten that?
"We are not going to the country after all," he said; "Hanka thought In fact, I told her plainly that if she wanted to go she would have to go alone; I was too busy to think of getting off. Hanka was very nice about it; she agreed to stay in the city." The door opened and Milde entered.
"What! are you drinking beer? No, beer will never do on this occasion; it must be wine!" "Well, drink what you want to. I am drinking beer." Just then Irgens arrived, and Milde called to him: "Ole is drinking beer, but we are not going to do that. What do you say?" Irgens did not show the least sign of embarrassment when he faced Ole; he barely nodded and said indifferently: "Welcome home!"
I see there is talk about famine in Russia Well, I can't say that I have starved as yet." Milde turned to Coldevin and remarked pompously: "That is something it wouldn't hurt you to know out in the country: so shabbily does Norway treat her great men!" Coldevin glanced from one to another. "Indeed," he said, "it is sad."
And Milde did not refrain; far from it; on the contrary, he had a remark to make. Could anybody tell him what it was all about? He admired Ojen as much as anybody, but was there any sense to all this "Jehovah said" and "Jehovah said"? He wanted to be enlightened. "But why are you always so unkind to Ojen?" asked Mrs. Hanka. "Memories can't you understand?
"You said you struck a huckster for brandy; you have got brandy, then?" "As for me, I place Paulsberg so high that I consider him alone able to do what is needed," said Irgens with thinly veiled sarcasm. This took Milde by surprise; he was not prepared to contradict Irgens; he nodded and said: "Certainly exactly.
"Waiter, the Gazette for to-day!" While they waited for the paper even Milde ventured to say that the reasons were anything but convincing. They consisted of vague vapourings about the easterly boundary, the unpreparedness of the army, even mentioning foreign intervention.... "And fifteen minutes ago you yourself agreed with the Gazette unqualifiedly," said Gregersen.
Some join it while others depart; there remain a young, corpulent artist by the name of Milde, and an actor with a snub nose and a creamy voice; also Irgens, and Attorney Grande of the prominent Grande family. The most important, however, is Paulsberg, Lars Paulsberg, the author of half a dozen novels and a scientific work on the Atonement.
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