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Updated: June 23, 2025
It rolled out as strangely monotonous as the roar of a distant waterfall. But his peculiar way of speaking made everything he said sink in, so that one could not escape from it for many days. Poor Petter Nord! "What is most needed to become rich," said Halfvorson, "is the foundation. But it cannot be earned.
He told Petter Nord about all the poor boys who had amassed riches. He began with Whittington and ended with Astor and Jay Gould. Halfvorson knew all their histories; he knew how they had striven and denied themselves; what they had discovered and ventured. He grew eloquent when he began on such tales.
"Halfvorson and all the others, how can they? If I were here, I would refuse to let you die. I would give you all my strength. I would take all your suffering." "I have no pain," she said, smiling at such bold promises. "I am thinking that I would like to carry you away like a frozen bird, lay you under my vest like a young squirrel.
He looked all of a sudden pitifully weak and small. His tears were streaming. He wailed aloud. "Uncle," said Edith, "he is weeping." "Let him weep," said Halfvorson, "let him weep!" And he walked forward and looked at the boy. "You can weep all you like," he said, "but that does not take me in." "Oh, oh," cried Petter Nord, "I am no thief. I hid the note as a joke to make you angry.
They were now for him almost what the mice had been formerly. Now it happened that these wharf-rats had heard some gossip from the village. And after the space of six years they brought Petter Nord information that Halfvorson had put the fifty crowns out for him to disqualify him as a witness. And in their opinion Petter Nord ought to go back to the town and punish Halfvorson.
The cucumbers lay there half-dead and gasped for breath; some of the leaves were burnt, and others were drooping. I was so overcome, I too, that I never thought what I was doing, and Halfvorson caught sight of my shadow. 'Look here, take the watering-pot that is standing in the asparagus bed and run down to the river for water, he said, without looking up.
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