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He came up a little while back." "Oh?" "I've sold him a copper mine." "Ho! What's that a copper mine?" "Copper, yes. Up in the hills, all along the north side of the water." "You you don't mean he paid you money for it?" "Ay, that he did. Geissler he wouldn't buy things and not pay for them." "What did you get, then?" "H'm. Well, you might not believe it but it was two hundred Daler."
He knew that a fork was really just as necessary as a knife. As a man of business, he used the terms of the new coinage, whereas, out in the wilds, men still counted money by the ancient Daler. Ay, he was not unwilling to walk across the hills to other parts; here, at home, he was constantly forced to keep down his own superiority.
The terms I proposed have been agreed to almost without exception." "Without exception," said Isak, and nodded. "Here are the title-deeds. You can have the transfer registered at the first session." "Ay," said Isak. "And how much is there to pay?" "Ten Daler a year. The Department has made a slight alteration here ten Daler per annum instead of five. You have no objection to that, I presume?"
She opened the door to the kitchen, and called the boatmen in. "Jakob, you remember the day you rowed us out to Korholmerne, and you picked up my shoe when it fell into the water?" "Yes," answered Jakob. "And you were given five daler for saving it?" "Yes, you gave me..." "Thanks, that will do, you can go." Now what did she mean by that trick? I thought she was trying to shame me.
Then he took up the matter again. "Aren't you sorry you gave me all that yesterday?" he said. "Woodenhead! Of course not," said Sivert. That was what he said, but well, five thousand Daler was five thousand Daler, and no little sum; if his brother were anything but a lousy Indian savage, he ought to give back half.
And then they must set her free. There's not a shadow of doubt." Then he read over what he had written; the contract for purchase of the land. Two hundred Daler cash down, and later, a nice high percentage of receipts from working, or ultimate disposal by further sale, of the copper tract. "Sign your name here," said Geissler.
Some of the accounts, too, were difficult to make out at all; they were a muddle, a bare jumble of figures, especially from the date when the coinage was changed; the district treasurer had frequently reckoned the small Kroner as if they were full Daler. No wonder he fancied himself rich! But when everything was reduced to something like order, Eleseus feared there would not be much left over.
Isak had meanwhile had a talk with Geissler, and told him everything as to his own position: about the purchase of the land, which had come to a hundred Daler instead of fifty. "That's a trifle," said Geissler easily. "You've thousands, like as not, on your part of the hills." "Ho!" said Isak. "But you'd better get those title-deeds entered in the register as soon as ever you can." "Ay."
I'll send in a report, and say a hundred Daler would be fair. What do you think?" he asked his assistant. "It's giving it away," said the other. "A hundred Daler?" said Inger. "Isak, you've no call to take so big a place." "No o," said Isak. The assistant put in hurriedly: "That's just what I say. It's miles too big for you as it is. What will you do with it?" "Cultivate it," said the Lensmand.
If I had, they'd only have taken offence and put their own price on it. I suggested fifty Daler." "Ho. Fifty, you said? Not a hundred?" The Lensmand puckered his brow and thought a moment. "As far as I recollect it was fifty. Yes...." "And where will you be going, now?" asked Isak. "Over to Vesterbotten, to my wife's people." "'Tis none so easy that way at this time of year." "I'll manage.
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