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Lasse had his hot drink, even before the boy returned; and every day while he kept his bed he had something strengthening although there was no black-currant rum in it. During this time Pelle went up to the mistress nearly every day. Kongstrup had gone on business to Copenhagen.
A friend of hers, who was "reduced," said she had never known what comfort meant till she came down to two. That James really took too much upon himself! Talking of black-currant jelly how beautiful the peaches were on the south wall! Her cousin's little boy Eddie, not Tom fell over a garden barrow the other day, and it might have been most serious, for the shears were only a few yards away.
Lasse had his hot drink, even before the boy returned; and every day while he kept his bed he had something strengthening although there was no black-currant rum in it. During this time Pelle went up to the mistress nearly every day. Kongstrup had gone on business to Copenhagen.
How they spent the time did not seem to be certainly known, but the impression was that politics occupied them. Undoubtedly Mr. Critchlow was an extremely peculiar man. He was a man of habits. He must always have the same things for his tea. Black-currant jam, for instance. Critchlow a tea which did not comprise black-currant jam was inconceivable by the intelligence of St. Luke's Square.
As a rule, Pelle chattered unceasingly when they were by themselves; but this evening he was quieter. The event of the afternoon was still in his mind, and the coming visit gave him a feeling of solemnity. Lasse carried a red bundle in his hand, in which was a bottle of black-currant rum, which they had got Per Olsen to buy in the town the day before, when he had been in to swear himself free.
I was terrified at the devastation which had been accomplished in a brief half-hour; the black-currant trees were the apple of Joseph's eye, and she had just fixed her choice of a flower-bed in the midst of them. 'There! That will be all shown to the master, I exclaimed, 'the minute it is discovered. And what excuse have you to offer for taking such liberties with the garden?
For days now the women and children have been climbing the hill at six in the morning, with big hats on their heads, deep baskets on their backs, low stools in their hands. There is a big field of black-currant bushes beside my garden to the south. All day, in the heat, they sit under the bushes picking away.
Milly, who was old enough to listen, could only understand a little bit here and there; but there was always Aunt Emma's friendly gentle face to look at, and her soft old hand in its black mitten, to slip her own little fingers into; while Olly was so taken up with the prospects of the black-currant pudding which he had seen cook making in the morning, and the delight of it when it came, that it seemed no trouble to him to sit still.
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