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The prolonged agitation of mind had told upon him, and he was sitting now the day before the one when he was to go in to Arendal again alone in his house, feeling very low and depressed; it looked so dreary and empty.
Every now and then there might perhaps come a boat on one errand or another, and a couple of times she had paid a visit to her maternal aunt on land, at Arendal.
And over there, in Arendal, she could, of course, count upon being able to make her own terms against her husband, the unpopular pilot could be sure of having every one on her side, from her aunt to these same Becks." Yes; and what was the real history of her connection with the Becks? He had never had that matter satisfactorily cleared up.
It was from that time that she dated the influence which she usually acquired in the social circles she frequented, and which her husband's position and circumstances made it easy for her to maintain when they changed their residence to Arendal. But those first years of their married life had not passed without a serious, and to her completely decisive, éclaircissement.
I didn't think you would mind, or I wouldn't have done it." "Oh! it's quite immaterial to me, of course, who you send your love to." "She was my best friend when I was in Arendal," Elizabeth said, avoiding the mention of Beck's name again. "I don't doubt you are on the best possible terms with all these people," Salvé said, impatiently, and making a movement as if he would get up from his seat.
Elizabeth had seen the boat pass Merdö for Arendal the day before, and she was sitting indoors now expecting her husband, having commissioned their youngest and only other son, Henrik, to keep a look-out, and come and tell her when he saw his father coming.
On the stern, pine-clad southern coast of Norway, off the picturesquely-situated town of Arendal, stand planted far out into the sea the white walls of the Great and Little Torungen Lighthouses, each on its bare rock-island of corresponding name, the lesser of which seems, as you sail past, to have only just room for the lighthouse and the attendant's residence by the side.
"No fear, Mina," he answered quickly, in the same tone, chucking her under the chin as he spoke. "There are as handsome girls as her in Arendal; but you can see as well as I can that she is a girl in a hundred. That business with the tea-tray is what very few others would have been capable of; and we mustn't forget that if it had not been for her "
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