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And, coming down as far as to Maaneland, there's Barbro at the glass window with a child in her arms, and sees him, and says: "'Tis Isak himself!" He comes to Storborg and pulls up. "Ptro! Is Eleseus at home?" Eleseus comes out. Ay, he's at home; not gone yet, but just going off on his spring tour of the towns down south. "Here's some things your mother sent down," says his father.
"You got two hundred Daler!" shouts Inger, stopping again with a "Ptro!" "I did yes. And I've paid for my land a long while back," said Isak. "Well you are a wonder, you are!" Truly, it was a pleasure to see Inger all surprised, and make her a rich wife. Isak did not forget to add that he had no debts nor owings at the store or anywhere else.
"Ay, 'tis so, I know," he answers. "I've studied it all through." He gets up into the seat and starts off again; it goes steadily now. Suddenly the machine stops working the knives are not cutting at all. "Ptro! What's wrong now?" Father down from his seat, no longer swelling with pride, but bending an anxious, questioning face down over the machine.
You thinking of leaving us, then?" "Why, they'll be wanting me home some time, I doubt," says she. "Ptro!" says Sivert, stopping his horse. "Like me to drive back with you now, perhaps?" Jensine looks at him; he is pale as death. "No," says she. And a little after she begins to cry. Rebecca looks in surprise from one to the other.
"'Twill shake her all to pieces," said Isak, and carries her on. They cross the moors and get into the woods again. "Ptro!" says Inger, and the horse stops. She takes the child from Isak, gets him to shift the chest and the sewing-machine, making a place for Leopoldine in the bottom of the cart. "Shaken? not a bit of it!"
"Eight cows!" "That is to say, counting the bull." "Have you sold any butter?" "Ay, and eggs." "What, have we chickens now?" "Ay, of course we have. And a pig." Inger is so astonished at all this that she forgets herself altogether, and stops for a moment "Ptro!" And Isak is proud and keeps on, trying to overwhelm her completely. "That Geissler," he says, "you remember him?
And father and son drive off. Andresen watches them from the door of the shop and wishes a pleasant journey. Isak is all thought for his boy, and would give him the seat to himself; but Eleseus will have none of that, and 'sits up by his side. They come to Breidablik, and suddenly Eleseus has forgotten something. "Ptro! What is it?" asks his father. Oh, his umbrella!
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