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Julle bowed, and said she had seen him before: he had heard Mynster, and had stood near the chair where she sat; he was dressed in an olive-green coat. "Then you are acquainted with each other!" said the lady. "She is the most pious of all the children. When the others rave about Spindler and Johanne Schoppenhauer, she raves about the clergyman who confirmed her. You know my son?
"The author is anonymous, and a clever man." "Good Heavens! you are not the author, Mr. Thostrup?" cried Julle, and looked at him with a penetrating gaze. "You can manage such things so secretly! You think so highly of Heiberg: I remember well all the beautiful things you said of his 'Walter the Potter' and his 'Psyche." Otto assured her that he could not confess to this honor.
The lady now conducted Otto into the sitting-room, where he found the four daughters in full activity with a workwoman. The fifth daughter, Julle, was, as they had told him, gone to the shops for patterns: yesterday she had run all over the town, but the patterns she received were not good. The lady told him the name of each daughter; their characteristics he naturally learnt later.
"Those are 'the lords of the kingdom of mind," said Miss Grethe, smiling. We are the stem which can never decay!" "No, the neighbors!" replied Otto quickly. At this moment Miss Julle entered. She had been wandering from shop to shop, she said, until she could bear it no longer!
Alvilde had always a little attack of the tooth-ache; Julle went shopping, and Miss Grethe was the bride. She was also musical, and was considered witty. "Such good ideas as this I have every hour of the day!" We ought really to accuse these excellent girls of nothing foolish; they were very good and wise. The lover, Mr. Svane, was also a zealous wit; he was so lively, they said.
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