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Updated: May 23, 2025
There's no one nowadays who steals, no one who commits murder or wrongs the widow and the fatherless, and of course no one hates or persecutes his neighbour any more, and it wouldn't occur to any of us, who have such a good religion, to do any wrong!" "There are many things that aren't just as they ought to be," drawled Halvor. He sounded sleepy, and anything but interested.
'No, said Halvor, 'I will not go up there till early to-morrow morning; let me stay here to-night. I can sit down on the hearth. They could say nothing against that, so Halvor sat down on the hearth, and began to rake about among the ashes just as he had done before, when he lay there idling away his time.
Ingmar closed his eyes for a moment, and there was the shadow of a smile on his lips, but all the same he answered rather mournfully: "They have no use for me at home." "No use for you?" cried the old man. "You don't know how soon you may be needed on the farm. Elof lived only two years, and who knows how long Halvor will hold out?" "Halvor is a strong, hearty fellow," Ingmar reminded.
As there was no wind at all they lay there becalmed, and Halvor asked the skipper to give him leave to go on shore to look about him, for he would much rather do that than lie there and sleep. 'Dost thou think that thou art fit to go where people can see thee? said the skipper; 'thou hast no clothes but those rags thou art going about in!
"This is Tims Halvor Halvorsson," said Ingmar, introducing the newcomer to Berger Sven Persson. Sven Persson did not rise, but greeted Halvor with a sweep of the hand, saying, somewhat facetiously: "It is a pleasure to meet so distinguished a personage." Ingmar noisily drew up a chair for Halvor, so that he was spared the embarrassment of replying.
So, when he had walked a while, he met a man with a tidy horse, and he wanted to buy it, and began to chaffer with the man. 'Aye', said the man, 'to tell the truth, I never thought of selling him; but if we could strike a bargain, perhaps 'What do you want for him', asked Halvor.
It was a mere accident that the partisans of Viggo Hook lived on the west side of the river, and those of Halvor Reitan mostly on the east side. Viggo, who had a chivalrous sense of fair play, would never have molested any one without good cause; but now his own safety, and, as he persuaded himself, even his life, was in danger, and he had no choice but to take measures in self-defence.
Halvor talked at length about the weather and the state of the roads, then he asked the clergyman if he had got a good price for his grain, and if he had succeeded in getting certain repairs made that he had been wanting for such a long time. Karin then asked after the pastor's wife, and hoped that there had been some improvement in her health of late.
They don't think the same thoughts as do those of us who live in the solitude of the dark forest." She could see that the Hellgumists were uneasy because Halvor had called them together on a week day. They feared that he was going to tell them of more desertions from their ranks.
In thanks they took the job away from me by conniving to throw the blame on me for a theft committed by one of them. I was arrested, of course, and sent to the penitentiary." "One doesn't ordinarily run across such bad people," returned Halvor indifferently.
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