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Updated: June 16, 2025
And the pair of them talk over things together, and each is glad of a talk with the other. "What's the news down village?" asks Axel. "Why, nothing much," says Sivert. "There's a new man coming to take up land, so they say." A new man nothing in that; 'twas only Sivert's way of putting it. New men came now every year or so, to take up land; there were five new holdings now below Breidablik.
Very soon the neighbours from below will be coming up. Axel Ström is interested in things, he may be up tomorrow. But Brede from Breidablik, he might be here that very evening. Isak would not be loth to show them his machine, explain it to them, tell them how it works, and all about it. He can point out how that no man with a scythe could ever cut so fine and clean.
"Ay, got there at last, so she writes, but little thanks to you." "I'll have you out of Breidablik, and that sharp," said Axel. "Ay, if you'd be so kind," said the other, with a sneer. "But we'll be going of ourselves at the new year," he said, and went on his way. So Barbro was gone to Bergen ay, 'twas as Axel had thought. He did not take it to heart. Take it to heart?
Axel Ström has promised to take part in the work, seeing that he has a horse and uses the road himself but Axel had pressing business in the town just then. Heaven knows what it could be, but very pressing, he said it was. But he had asked his brother from Breidablik to work with them in his stead. Fredrik was this brother's name.
She could let herself be dazzled by her son's bright prospects for the future, and stand between him and his father, to take his part she could do that. But Isak grew impatient at last over her opposition; to his mind, the idea about Breidablik was by no means a bad one.
"Ay, you've the trick of it," said the father. "H'm, yes ... Breidablik ... might make something but of that place." "Ay, should think so," said the son. "Only the land was fairly ditched and turned." "The house'd have to be done up." "Ay, that of course.
It looked as if he were trying to make himself indispensable to the telegraph people in the little time that remained, so as to keep his job. He never came in to see Axel now that Barbro was gone, but went straight by a piece of high-and-mightiness ill fitted to his state, seeing that he was still living on at Breidablik and had not moved.
Barbro from Breidablik was not the sort of girl Isak approved of; she was shallow and unsettled like her father maybe like her mother too a careless creature, no steady character at all. She had not stayed long at the Lensmand's; only a year. After her confirmation, she went to help at the storekeeper's, and was there another year.
Here she turned pious and got religion, and when the Salvation Army came to the village she joined it, and went about with a red band on her sleeve and carried a guitar. She went to Bergen in that costume, on the storekeeper's boat that was last year. And she had just sent home a photograph of herself to her people at Breidablik.
But down in the village things were different. The school was full of ski; even the children at Breidablik, it seemed, had each a pair. And the end of it was that Isak had to make a new pair for Eleseus, Sivert keeping the old pair for his own. Isak did more; he had the boys well clad, and gave them everlasting boots. But when that was done, Isak went to the storekeeper and asked for a ring.
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