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Updated: May 2, 2025
Isak's trouble was not so bad as it might have been; after all, he was not certain that he had been wronged, and apart from that, he had other things to think of; the harvesting was at hand. And last, not least, the telegraph line was all but finished now; in a little while they would be left in peace.
It was not yet summer on the moors, but Geissler paid no heed to the state of the ground; he came on foot, in rich high boots with broad, shiny tops; yellow gloves, too, he wore, and was elegant to see; a man from the village carried his things. He had come, as a matter of fact, to buy a piece of Isak's land, up in the hills a copper mine. And what about the price?
"But I don't know what's the matter with me today; after being ill on the boat, I feel hungry all the time." "Why, did you want something, then?" "Yes, if you don't mind stopping so long." Oh, that Inger, maybe 'twas not for herself at all, but for Isak's sake. She would have him eat again; he had spoiled his last meal chewing twigs of heather.
"I'm afraid this journey will upset my stomach," said the Lensmand. He began at once to talk about Isak's deal in land. "I sent off the report at once, with a strong recommendation on my own account. Sellanraa's a nice name. As a matter of fact, they ought to let you have the place for nothing, wouldn't do to say so, of course.
He was intent on his work now. The stone should come up! It would be wrong to say there was anything at all perverse in this on Isak's part; it was the ingrown love of a worker on the soil, but altogether without tenderness.
Was she doubting that Inger told the truth? Or had she her suspicions as to Isak's reading? It was no easy matter to get at what Oline really thought, when she sat there with her simple face, saying dark things. Isak determined to take no notice. "And when your mother comes home, boys, you shall learn to write too," said he to the lads.
Isak thinks it a shame to be sitting up there all alone, and calls out: "Here, you come and drive a bit; I'm getting tired." Eleseus won't hear of his father getting down, and gets up beside him again. But first they must have something to eat out of Isak's well-filled pack. Then they drive on again.
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