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Damie, who had learned from Crappy Zachy to knit wool, now sat beneath the parental roof again; and at night, when the brother and sister were asleep in the garret, each one of them would wake the other when they heard Black Marianne down stairs, running to and fro and muttering to herself. But Damie's transmigration to Black Marianne's was the cause of new trouble.
Damie's whining and sensitive nature was very disgusting to Crappy Zachy, and he tried to cure him of it by giving him plenty to cry about and teasing him whenever he could. Thus the two little stems which had sprouted in the same garden were transplanted into different soils.
But I have not sworn not to go if you write to me that you are doing well at uncle's, then I'll come after you. But to go out into the fog, where one knows nothing well, I'm not fond of making changes anyway, and after all I'm doing fairly well here. But now let us consider how you are to get away." Damie's savings were very trifling, and Barefoot's were not enough to make up the deficiency.
When Damie's first letter came from Bremen nobody had ever thought that he could write so properly then she exulted before the eyes of men, and read the letter aloud several times; but in secret she was sorry to have lost such a brother, probably forever. She reproached herself for not having put him forward enough, for it was now evident what a sharp lad Damie was, and so good too!
"You'll see how much longer I shall be here," said Damie; and without another word he went into Coaly Mathew's house. Barefoot felt like laughing at Damie's ridiculous plan, but she could not; she felt that there was some meaning in it. And that very night, when everybody was in bed, she went to her brother and declared once for all that she would not go with him.
But she bore up more bravely than ever; she did not allow Damie's weaknesses and adversities to weigh upon her. For that is the way with people; if any one has a pain of his own which entirely occupies him, he will bear a second pain be it ever so severe more easily than if he had this second pain alone to bear.
Or have you, perhaps, something of your own?" Hereupon Barefoot said that she, to be sure, had a necklace which had been presented to her as a child by Dame Landfried, but that on account of Damie's emigration it was in pledge with the sexton's widow.
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