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He looked like an evil spirit when he fixed his eyes on me, and snapped his fingers." Ulla shook her head mournfully, and then asked Erica to put another peat on the fire. "I really should like to know," said Erica, in a low voice, when she resumed her seat on the bed, "I am sure you can tell me if you would, what is the real truth about Hund, what it is that weighs upon his heart."
Before Oddo could answer, Madame Erlingsen desired that he would go home with his grandfather, and tell Ulla about the deer, while he warmed himself. She did not wish her daughters to hear what he might have to tell of Hund. Stiorna too was better out of the way. Oddo had not half told the story of the deer to his grandmother, when his mistress and Erica entered.
His eyes, as he spoke, were like flames of fire under a forehead dark crimson, and with his clenched fist he struck the brazen table before his throne, so that the clang and roar of the quivering bronze sounded through all the borders of Ulla.
And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram. And the sons of his brother Helem; Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal. The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah, Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera. And the sons of Jether; Jephunneh, and Pispah, and Ara. And the sons of Ulla; Arah, and Haniel, and Rezia.
There are no dwellings so warm in winter and cool in summer as well-built log-houses; and this house had everything essential to health and comfort: but there was nothing more, unless it was the green sprinkling of the floor, and the clean appearance of everything the room contained, from Ulla's cap to the wooden platters on the shelf. "I thought you would come," said Ulla.
A moment later I learned that Sheikh Faiz Ulla was on the opposite bank with his army and his artillery, that he intended to wait for me in a narrow place called Choquova, at the foot of which my boats must pass, and that he was diligently making entrenchments there. My embarrassment was then extreme.
"Finding myself in the territory of the Raja of Dinajpur, I imagined I had nothing to do with any one except him, and that Sheikh Faiz Ulla and his army would not think of following me through a country which, though tributary to the Nawab of Bengal, still in no way belonged to Faiz Ulla's master.
"Indeed, there was no helping it, any more than one can help watching a storm-cloud as it comes up." "So it was dark and wrathful, was it, that ugly face of his? Well it might be, dear; well it might be!" "The worst was, worse than all his dark looks together, O, Ulla! the worst was his leap and cry of joy when he heard what Oddo had done, and that Nipen was made our enemy.
"I tell you he leaped for joy that Nipen was offended. Here is some one coming," she exclaimed, starting from her seat, as a shadow flitted over the thick window-pane, and a hasty knock was heard at the door. "You are a coward, if ever there was one," said Ulla, smiling. "Hund never comes here, so you need not look so frightened.
"This is now the third evening," said Ulla: "ah, best gracious lady, it goes really to my heart it is not justly right there!" "What is not justly right, Ulla?" "That Mamselle Eva goes out to the grave so late, and does not come back again till it has struck ten, and that she will be so much alone," returned Ulla.
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