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Another time. 'Good-night, said she." The Captain spoke to Nils about the timber; he thought of disposing of the whole lot, or selling it standing. Nils took this to mean that he didn't like the idea of having more new folk about the place. "It looks like things are as bad as ever with him and Fruen," said Nils.
Through this connection, in 1815, John and Nils Ericsson were appointed as cadets in a corps of Mechanical Engineers to be employed in carrying out the Government's plans with reference to the canal.
A sudden clearness burst upon her; she rushed forward, with a piercing scream, snatched little Hans from his father's arms, and hugging his wet little shivering form to her breast, fled like a deer through the underbrush. From that day little Hans was not permitted to go to the river. It was in vain that Nils pleaded and threatened.
"If he cannot trust us, we two must teach him mustn't we, Gjert?" Towards dinner-time Salvé and Nils Buvaagen were standing for a moment together by the ship's side. The storm had perceptibly lulled, but the weather was still dull and hazy, and the sea high.
"If Captain takes away the help I've got, then I've finished here, that's all," says Nils. The Captain walked to the stable door and looked out, biting his moustache and thinking hard. Then he asked over his shoulder: "And you can't spare the lad, either?" "No," said Nils; "he's the harrowing to do." This was our first real encounter with the Captain, and we had our way.
"It's all right with me, teacher!" he exclaimed "it's all right with me! You know that hymn I've tried to learn so many times, and couldn't make out. The first line came into my head yesterday in our troubles 'God is our stronghold and defence; but I could not get any further." "Perhaps that was far enough just then, Nils," said Tora.
Whence do they come and whither do they go? To these questions, no doubt, an answer can be found, and it is partly given, and very awkwardly, by the incessant introduction of narrative. The confused and melodramatic scene in the banquet-hall between Nils Lykke and Skaktavl is of central importance, but what is it about?
I went to the house, but Johanna told me you had gone to your father's." "Who can stay in the house on a night like this? Aren't you out yourself?" "Ah, but that's another matter." Nils turned the horse into the field. "What are you doing? Where are you taking Norman?" "Not far, but I want to talk to you tonight; I have something to say to you.
When the boy came into the park on Friday, he heard the bulfinches sing in every bush, of how Sirle Squirrel's wife had been carried away from her children by cruel robbers, and how Nils, the goose boy, had risked his life among human beings, and taken the little squirrel children to her.
On the wooden board-walk in front of the cottage, hopped a gray sparrow. He had hardly set eyes on the boy before he called out: "Teetee! Teetee! Look at Nils goosey-boy! Look at Thumbietot! Look at Nils Holgersson Thumbietot!" Instantly, both the geese and the chickens turned and stared at the boy; and then they set up a fearful cackling. "Cock-el-i-coo," crowed the rooster, "good enough for him!
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