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There is a letter in existence written by him to his father when the latter was on his death-bed that bears witness to this. He thanks him with filial affection for all his care, and says naïvely that he would rather have his prayers than fall heir to twenty thousand daler. His pictures show a stocky, broad-shouldered youth with frank blue eyes, full lips, and an eagle nose.
When they came back to the farm once more with a sack full of samples of ore he got out writing materials and sat down to write. He did not bury himself completely in his writing, though, but talked now and again. "Well, Isak, it won't be such a big sum this time, for the land, but I can give you a couple of hundred Daler anyway, on the spot." Then he wrote again.
But even then it was not exactly thoroughgoing, out-and-out wickedness on Inger's part; she wanted the money for Eleseus for her blessed boy Eleseus in town, who was asking for his Daler again. Was he to go there among all the fine folk and with empty pockets? After all, she had a mother's heart. She asked his father for the money first, and, finding it was no good, had taken it herself.
"And helped us kindly in many a way." "Not a bit of it," said Geissler shortly. "Here take this." And he took out some Daler notes. Geissler was not the man to take things for nothing, that was plain. And he seemed to have plenty of money about him, from the way his pocket bulged. Heaven only knew if he really had money or not.
"Daler?" cried Eleseus suddenly, mimicking his brother. Oline, no doubt, thought this ill-timed jesting. Oh, she had herself been cheated of her due; for all that she had managed to squeeze out something like real tears over old Sivert's grave. Eleseus should know best what he himself had written so-and-so much to Oline, to be a comfort and support in her declining years.
Geissler put a stop to that, however. "Jesting apart," he said. Isak himself understood but little of the whole affair; he had sold the place once, and got his money. But in any case, he did not care much about Kroner it was not real money like Daler. Sivert, on the other hand, followed the business with more understanding.
And besides, it's only one o'clock... Listen," she went on with sparkling eyes, "you gave our boatmen five daler for saving my shoe. It was too much." And she laughed heartily and turned round to the rest. I stood with open mouth, disarmed and confused. "You are pleased to be witty," I said. "I never gave your boatman five daler at all." "Oh, didn't you?"
Ay, it had come to that; he had bought the horse from the Lensmand's assistant; the animal was for sale, as Geissler had said, but it cost two hundred and forty Kroner that was sixty Daler. The price of horseflesh had gone up beyond all bounds: when Isak was a boy the best horse could be bought for fifty Daler. But why had he never raised a horse himself?
"You have it? How much is it?" asked Sivert. "Ha ha ha, you want to know how much it is first, you old miser!" "Well, you can have it, anyway," said Sivert. "It's between five and ten thousand." "Daler?" cried Sivert; he couldn't help it. Now Eleseus never reckoned in Daler, but he didn't like to say no at the time, so he just nodded, and left it at that till next day.
Old Cohen carried a Danish bullet in his arm to remind him of his early ill-doings. But it was not fired in defence of Ribe. That collapsed when a staff officer of the government, who had been sent out to report upon the zeal of the Ribe men, declared that the town could be defended only by damming the river and flooding the meadows, which would cost two hundred daler.
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