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So the lads grew up in a paradise of dirt and ignorance, but they were nice lads for all that when they were washed, which happened now and again; little Sivert he was a splendid fellow, though Eleseus was something finer and deeper. "How do the gulls know about the weather?" he asked. "They're weather-sick," said his father. "But as for that they're no more so than the flies.
Such as it is; nothing to make a fortune out of there, and Eleseus is overmuch out and abroad, making pleasant journeys on business to open up connections, and it costs too much; he does not travel cheaply. "Doesn't do to be mean," says Eleseus, and gives twenty Ore over where he might save ten. The business cannot support a man of his tastes, he must get subsidies from home.
I can send three men, carriage and cart to fetch a doctor if I want one. Don't try your games with me, young man! Can't even wait till I'm gone, it seems. I've shown you the document and you've seen it, and it's there in the chest that's all I've got to say. But if you go running off and leave me now, you can just carry word to Eleseus and tell him to come.
"Well, to tell the truth," explained Eleseus, "I don't reckon to get fat on that legacy, after all." Sivert looked at him in astonishment. "Ho, don't you?" "No, nothing special, that is to say. Not what you might call par excellence."
They talk quietly, keep on talking. Sivert thinks it would be best if his father came out and Eleseus could talk to him himself; but "No, no!" whispers Eleseus again; he was never much of a man to face a thing like that, but always must have a go-between. Says Sivert: "Well, mother, you know how 'tis with her. There'll be no getting any way with her for crying and talking on. She mustn't know."
"Here's thanks!" says Sivert, and gets up from his seat to go. "Here's thanks!" says Eleseus also; but he did not rise nor bow as a man should do in saying thanks for a cup of coffee; not he, indeed he would see her at the devil for a bitter-tongued lump of ugliness. "Let me look," said Barbro.
"So as not to be altogether without. And it's not much; only a Daler now and then." "Ay, that's just it," said Isak harshly. "A Daler now and a Daler then...." But his harshness was all because he missed Eleseus himself, and wanted him home. "It makes too many Dalers in the long run," said he. "I can't keep, on like this; you must write and tell him he can have no more."
They sit down at the edge of the wood, and see the village just below them, the store and the quay, Brede's old lodging-house; some men are moving about by the steamer, getting ready. "Well, no time to stay sitting here," says Eleseus, getting up again. "Fancy you going all that way," says Sivert. And Eleseus answers: "But I'll be coming back again.
"Like to know, now suppose he'd a bit of land of his own...." "How do you mean?" "If he'd work on a place of his own?" "No." "Well, have you said anything?" "Said anything? Can't you see for yourself? No, I don't see anything in him Eleseus, that way." "Don't sit there talking ill of him," said Isak impartially. "All I can see is, he's doing a good day's work down there."
And, look you, he had by now smoked the last of the tobacco he had brought with him from town; ordinarily, that would have been enough to make a clerk go about banging doors and expressing himself emphatically upon many points; but no, Eleseus only grew the steadier for it firmer and more upright; a man indeed. Even Sivert, the jester, could not put him out of countenance.
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