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Updated: June 18, 2025
'Then I don't understand why you were always running after her and sitting out in the summer-house and lurking in corners, said she. 'It was you that sat out in the summer-house, he answered. 'Oh yes, it's always me, said she. 'Never you by any chance! 'As for my running after Elisabet, said the Captain, 'it was solely and simply in the hopes of getting you back.
For by this time Harmony was his very good friend, admitted to the Jimmy club, which consisted of Nurse Elisabet, the Dozent with the red beard, Anna and Peter, and of course the sentry, who did not know that he belonged. "Gelatin, to be sure," replied Peter, and produced the horns.
A gala day, indeed, if one could forget the grave in the little mountain town with only a name on the cross at its head, and if one did not notice that the boy was thinner than ever, that his hands soon tired of playing and lay in his lap, that Nurse Elisabet, who was much inured to death and lived her days with tragedy, caught him to her almost fiercely as she lifted him back from the chair into the smooth white bed.
Yesterday the Fraulein Elisabet said that in the mountains there are accidents, and that sometimes " "The Fraulein Elisabet is a great fool. Tomorrow comes thy letter of a certainty. The post has been delayed with great snows. Thy father has perhaps captured a great boar, or a a chamois, and he writes of it." "Do chamois have horns?" "Ja. Great horns so." "He will send them to me!
"Good Lord, boy," he rasped, "don't you suppose I'd have a nurse if I could afford it?" "Would you let me help? I'd like to do something. I'm a useless cub in a sick-room, but I could do that. Who's the woman he liked in the hospital?" "Nurse Elisabet. I don't know, Mac. There's no reason why I shouldn't let you help, I suppose. It hurts, of course, but if he would be happier "
And Fruen said nothing much at first, but waited her chance, and then she said: "Yes, I know. I like to let my hair down now and again, and why not? It isn't yours!" She was none so clever, poor thing, at answering back in a quarrel. Then Elisabet had come up and put in her word. And she was smarter prrr!
But Fruen's windows looked out to the shrubbery, where the Captain was sitting with Elisabet from the vicarage. No place for Ragnhild there. Better to wait upstairs in the passage, and just take a look at the keyhole now and again, to see if the light was out. This sounded a little more reasonable. "But only think of it," said Ragnhild suddenly, shaking her head in admiration.
He raised his head at her footstep and the girl was startled at the suffering in his face. He motioned her back. "But you must have a little sleep, Peter." "No. I'll stay until Go back to bed. It is very early." Peter had not been able after all to secure the Nurse Elisabet, and now it was useless.
"That's settled, then," said McLean. "Nurse Elisabet, if she can come. And look here, old man. I 've been trying to say this for a week and haven't had the nerve. Let me help you out for a while. You can send it back when you get it, any time, a year or ten years. I'll not miss it." But Peter refused. He tempered the refusal in his kindly way. "I can't take anything now," he said.
And Elisabet put her hands on her hips, and asked the Captain to order her carriage. "Right!" says the Captain at that; "and I'll drive you myself!" All this Ragnhild had heard for herself standing close by. I thought to myself they were jealous, the pair of them she, of this sitting out in the shrubbery, and he, of her letting her hair down and putting out the light.
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