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So? I suppose you've not been very comfortable lately, eh? Your hut burned down..." And Herr Mack smiled. In a moment it seemed as if the wisest man in the world stood before my eyes. "Go indoors, Lieutenant; Edwarda is there. Well, I will say good-bye. See you on the quay, I suppose, when the vessel sails." He walked off, with head bowed in thought, whistling.
A month has passed, and a month is no long time; there is nothing wrong. Heaven knows this month has been short. But the nights are often long, and I am driven to wet my cap in the stream and let it dry, only to pass the time, while I am waiting. I reckoned my time by nights. Sometimes there would be an evening when Edwarda did not come once she stayed away two evenings. Nothing wrong, no.
"Came to see you safely off," said the Doctor. I thanked him. Edwarda looked me straight in the face and said: "I must thank you for your dog." She pressed her lips together; they were quite white. "When does the boat go?" the Doctor asked a man. "In half an hour." I said nothing. Edwarda was turning restlessly this way and that. "Doctor, don't you think we may as well go home again?" she said.
And he knelt on the grass before the two ladies, and instead of taking his hat off and laying it before him he held it straight up in the air with one hand, and emptied his glass with his head bent back. I was altogether carried away by his wonderful ease of manner, and would have drunk with him myself but that his glass was empty. Edwarda was following him with her eyes.
But you won't go thinking of that lady any more, will you? I don't think of anyone but you." I believed her. I saw that she meant what she said, and it was more than enough for me that she thought of no one else. I walked after her. "Thank you, Edwarda," I said. And then I added with all my heart: "You are all too good for me, but I am thankful that you will have me; God will reward you for that.
I could make no answer to this. But my heart flew out towards her once more, and I asked: "Why are you so unhappy all at once, Edwarda? If you knew how it hurts me to see " "I don't know what it is," she said. "Everything, perhaps. I wish all these people would go away at once, all of them. No, not you remember, you must stay till the last."
But it was just as well that they did not understand, as the older people in the kitchen did, how tragic that shoe box was. She was carrying something which she was not taking: Edwarda, until recently so treasured and beloved. She laid the doll upon the oilcloth, glanced at One-Eye, and put a finger to her lips.
The Doctor wore light things, as the ladies did; I had never seen him so pleased before; he talked with the rest, instead of listening in silence. I had an idea he had been drinking a little, and so was in good humor to-day. When we landed, he craved the attention of the party for a moment, and bade us welcome. I thought to myself: This means that Edwarda has asked him to act as host.
But I felt then that perhaps my happiness had reached and passed its height. And had it not? "Can you hear, Edwarda, how restless it is in the woods to-night? Rustling incessantly in the undergrowth, and the big leaves trembling. Something brewing, maybe but it was not that I had in mind to say.
"I make them myself," I said, full of gratitude. And I went on at once to explain how it was done. It was simple enough: I bought the feathers and the hooks. They were not well made, but they were only for my own use. One could get ready-made flies in the shops, and they were beautiful things. Edwarda cast one careless glance at me and my book, and went on talking with her girl friends.
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