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So Rolf proceeded to rouse Jan; and Erica stepped to Frolich's bedside, and waked her with a kiss. "Erica! No can it be?" said the active girl, up in a moment. "You look too happy to be Erica." "Erica never was so happy before, dear; that is the reason. You were right, Frolich bless your kind heart for it! Rolf was not dead. He is here."
And it is a safer plan for you, Frolich." And off went Erica with her cheese. The ridge on which she laid it would have tempted her at any other time to sit down. It was green and soft with mosses, and offered as comfortable a couch to one tired with the labours of the day as any to be found at the farm. But, to-night it was to be haunted: so Erica merely stayed to do her duty.
"How I pity the countries that have no glorious mountains!" cried Frolich; "especially if few of their people live in sight of the vast sea, or in the heart of deep forests." And, by one impulse, they all struck up the national air "For Norge," a thanksgiving for their home being planted in the midst of the northern seas.
"Hund wants a cure for the head-ache," Frolich whispered in return; "or a charm to make some girl betroth herself to him; a thing which no girl will do, but under a charm: for I don't believe Stiorna would when it came to the point, though she likes to be attended to."
He took some provision with him, drank off a glass of corn-brandy, kissed Frolich, promised to send news, and, if possible, more helping hands, and set off, at a good pace, down the mountain. The party he left behind was a dull one.
Within the memory of man, no bride had been prettier, no crown more glittering, no bridegroom more happy; no chanting was ever more soothing than old Peder's no clarionet better played than Oddo's, no bridesmaids more gay and kindly than Orga and Frolich.
I shall tell him nothing till you are out of hearing; he can repeat to you what he pleases afterwards, and he will indulge you all the more for your giving him a good supper." "So he will, and I will fill his cup myself," observed Frolich. "He says the corn-brandy is uncommonly good, and I will fill his cup till it will not hold another drop." "You will not reach his heart that way, Frolich.
And Frolich pointed to a patch of verdure on a slope high up the mountain, where the gazer might just discern that there were haycocks standing, and two or three moving figures beside them. "Stiorna is there to-day, besides Jan. They hope to finish this evening," said Frolich; "and so here I am, all alone: and I am glad you have come to help me to have a good supper ready for them.
Frolich, Stiorna, and Erica examined it carefully, and pronounced it a well-pressed, excellent Gammel cheese, such as they should not be ashamed to set before the bishop, and therefore one which ought to satisfy the demon.
"You will change your mind, Miss Frolich, when you see them on the table," observed Ulla. "That is just what father said. And he asked how I thought Erica and Stiorna would like to have a den in their neighbourhood when they go up to the mountain for the summer. O, it will be all right when the hunt is well over, and all the bears dead.
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