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Thus their outward circumstances were greatly improved, and of comfort and luxury Brita had all and more than she had ever desired; but her health was broken down, and the physicians declared that a year of foreign travel and a continued residence in Italy might possibly restore her. At last, Thomas, too, began to urge her, until she finally yielded.
"'Had you chosen one of our kind she would have exercised patience, says father. 'Well, yes, I say. 'I could see that Brita didn't like the idea of a postponement; but, you see, I felt that I couldn't afford a wedding just then. There had been the funeral in the spring, and we didn't want to take the money out of the bank. 'You did quite right in waiting, says father.
Was that, too, done only out of kindness and pity? Was he happy yesterday? Was it only to-day that he had lost heart, after seeing her come out of prison? To-morrow, when he had forgotten this, perhaps all would be well again. Sorrow and remorse had softened Brita: she did not grant to cause him any more unhappiness. Perhaps, after all, he really
De fool fader and de fool moder, dey may live." "Brita! poor Brita!" the man said softly, and added some words in his own tongue. She pushed him away, then burst into wild weeping and sank down on the floor. "He will be her best comforter," the doctor said. "We will go now, and I will see them all to-morrow.
"I think it can, for now I don't care a damn about anything or anybody but you!" Brita was ready to cry, but he just made her tell him again and again how often she had thought of him, and how much she had longed for him. Little by little he became as quiet as a child listening to a lullaby. It was all so different from what Brita had expected.
If this were only something that could be helped," Brita argued mentally, "I wouldn't mind your hindering me, but it can't be remedied now." All the while the man sat gazing intently at her. "Let me say to you that we Ingmars are not fitted to be shopkeepers," Brita continued in her thoughts. "You don't know how happy we were, Gunner and I, till he took up with this business.
Yes, dere are six, and good children dat lofe us, and I say efery day, 'Oh, my God, but you are so good! and my life lofes you, for so much good I haf. Brita too iss happy. She vork hard, but ve do not care, and ve dink, 'Soon ve can rest a little, for it iss not so hard dere as here; and ve sail to America. "But, my lady, how iss it it vas all so bad? For vork iss not.
But it iss not much money, dough I dink it so, for it iss alvay de rent so much, and ve are strange and dey cheat us. And ven I am troubled most, and dink to ask for more, den quick it iss dat I haf none. De place iss failed dat iss vat iss tell me and I go home to Brita to say vat shall to do?
"The last time I saw Brita," Kaisa vent on, "was in the middle of the winter after a big snowfall. I had come to a narrow path in the wild forest, where it was heavy walking. Soon I came upon some one who was sitting in the snow, resting. It was Brita. 'Are you all by yourself up here? I asked. 'Yes, I'm out for a walk. she said.
The next evening when the milking was done, and the cattle were gathered within the saeter enclosure, Brita was again sitting on the large stone, looking out over the valley. She felt a kind of companionship with the people when she saw the smoke whirling up from their chimneys, and she could guess what they were going to have for supper.
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