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"We're to have a party at the Parsonage on Friday would you give me a dance then?" "With pleasure; which would you like?" she answered, trying her best to assume a "society" manner. "A quadrille?" said Ola; thinking: "Quadrilles are so long." "The second quadrille is disengaged," answered the lady. "And a galop?" "Yes, thank you; the first galop," she replied, with a little hesitation.
When they came in sight of the tents, Ola said a few words more. "She came here to us Saméfolk to find her father and not to become my foster-child. But if she doesn't find him, I shall be glad to keep her in my tent." The fisherman hastened all the faster. "I might have known that he would be alarmed when I threatened to take his daughter into the Lapps' quarters," laughed Ola to himself.
One of the greatest reforms effected by Americans in the Philippines is the sanitation of the jails and penitentiaries, and we cannot be fairly blamed for not knowing in 1903 what nobody then knew. The troubles in Albay ended with the surrender of Ola on September 25, 1903. Blount gives the impression that he had a knowledge of them which was gained by personal observation.
Ola Serka himself, who was the most distinguished man among the Lapps, had said that he would find Osa's father, but he appeared to be in no haste and sat huddled outside the tent, thinking of Jon Esserson and wondering how best to tell him of his daughter's arrival. It would require diplomacy in order that Jon Esserson might not become alarmed and flee.
Ola Serka went down to Lake Luossajaure and had walked a short distance along the strand, when he happened upon a man who sat on a rock fishing. The fisherman was gray-haired and bent. His eyes blinked wearily and there was something slack and helpless about him.
Certainly no grown person would have succeeded in moving a scow out on Takern in that manner; but when the tide is high and ill-luck to the fore little children have a marvellous faculty for getting out to sea. Per Ola was soon riding around on Takern, and calling for Jarro.
And when the singer, before rising from the piano, threw in these three carefully-practised minor chords so lightly, and with such an impromptu air, as if his fingers had instinctively chanced upon them, then Ola shook his head and said to himself, "This is not quite straightforward of Hans." In the mean time his brother sang away at his rich repertory.
Cousin Ola, who was standing near the hostess, also took his leave. Cousin Hans, on the other hand, was detained by the Sheriff, who was anxious to learn under what teachers he had studied music; and that took time. Thus it happened that Ola and the fair one in the light green passed out into the passage at the same time.
Meanwhile, a wealthy Chinese mestizo named Don Circilio Jaucian, on whom Ola, during his brief career as an Insurgent officer, had laid a heavy hand, had become presidente of the town.
Then there was a large party which thought it great fun to hear Cousin Hans sing. "He always makes something out of it." But lastly there came a few evil-disposed people who asserted that he could neither sing nor play. It was with respect to the latter point, the accompaniment, that Cousin Ola always cherished a secret reproach against his brother the only shadow upon his admiration for him.
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