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And it was no light hay to move; she must have worked hard, and all the cows and goats to milk besides.... "Go in and get something to eat," he said to Sivert. "Aren't you coming, then?" "No." A little while after, Inger came out and stood humbly on the door-slab and said: "If you'd think of yourself a little and come in and have a bite to eat." Isak grumbled at that and said "H'm."
The father thought for a while, and said: "What d'you think, 'll this be a good stone?" "All depends if we can get this shell off him," said Sivert, and was on his feet in a moment, giving the setting-hammer to his father, and taking the sledge himself.
Sivert answered straight out at once: "I meant, if you don't care to stay with us, why, we must manage without." And a long while after, said Jensine: "Well, there's Leopoldine, she's big now, and fit and all to do my work, seems." Ay, 'twas a sorrowful journey. A man walks up the way through the hills.
As for the little ones, they'd get used to the noise in no time. Eleseus was inclined to be ailing somehow, but the other took nourishment sturdily, like a fat cherub, and when he wasn't crying, he slept. A wonder of a child! Isak made no objection to his being called Sivert, though he himself would rather have preferred Jacob. Inger could hit on the right thing at times.
And Sivert had hammered in more than one nail at the work, and lifted the heavy beams for the framework till he was near fainting. Sivert got on well with his father, and worked steadily at his side; he was made of the same stuff. And yet he was not above such simple ways as going up the hillside for tansy to rub with so as to smell nice in church.
"What's that?" says his father, all interested. "Did you see them?" "Ay, I saw them right enough. Down on the quay." "Ho! So that was what he must go in to town for," says his father. And Sivert sits there swelling with pride at knowing better, but says never a word.
Sivert trundles over with his load, and sees at once who it is Geissler. "Funny meeting you here," says Geissler. His face is red and flourishing, but his eyes apparently cannot stand the glare of spring, he is wearing smoked glasses. He talks as brilliantly as ever. "Luckiest thing in the world," says he. "Save me going all the way up to Sellanraa; and I've a deal to look after.
"Want with it, indeed? Haven't you help yourself? Haven't you Sivert all the time?" What could Isak say to a meaningless argument like that? He answered: "Ay, well; when you get a girl up here, I doubt you'll be able to plough and sow and reap and manage all by yourselves. And then Sivert and I can go our ways." "That's as may be," said Inger.
"Well, there's but nine there now." Eleseus counted again, and thought for a moment inside his little head; then he said: "Yes, but then Os-Anders had one to take away; that makes ten." There was silence for quite a while after that. Then little Sivert must try to count as well, and says after his brother: "That makes ten." Silence again. At last Oline felt she must say something.
"No," Eleseus agrees, "she mustn't know." Sivert goes off, stays away for ages, and comes back with money, a heap of money. "Here, that's all he has; think it'll be enough? Count he didn't count how much there was." "What did he say father?" "Nay, he didn't say much. Now you must wait a little, and I'll get some more clothes on and go down with you." "'Tis not worth while; you go and lie down."
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