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Pelle shuddered, and for a little while walked on in silence beside his father; but when he next spoke, he had forgotten all about it. "I suppose Uncle Kalle's rich, isn't he?" he asked. "He can't be rich, but he's a land-owner, and that's not a little thing!" Lasse himself had never attained to more than renting land. "When I grow up, I mean to have a great big farm," said Pelle, with decision.
Once, at Uncle Kalle's, he had laid himself in the big twins' cradle and had let the other children rock him he was then fully nine years old and as they rocked him a while the surroundings began to take hold of him, and he saw a smoky, raftered ceiling, which did not belong to Kalle's house, swaying high over his head, and he had a feeling that a muffled-up old woman, wrapped in a shawl, sat like a shadow at the head of the cradle, and rocked it with her foot.
"No, I don't suppose I shall sleep any more in this life; my eyes are so light, so light! Well, good-bye to you, Lasse and Pelle! May you be very, very happy, as happy as I've been. Maria was the only one death spared, but she's been a good daughter to me; and Kalle's been as good and kind to me as if I'd been his sweetheart.
"Why, then he's Uncle Kalle's eldest, and in a way my cousin Kalle, that is to say, isn't really his father. His wife had him before she was married he's the son of the owner of Stone Farm." "So he's a Kongstrup, then!" cried Per Kofod, and he laughed loudly. "Well, that's as it should be!" Pelle paid, and they got up to go. The two girls were still standing by the tree.
The driver sat in front, below the load, almost between the horses; he was tall and had ruddy cheeks, and was monstrously wrapped up, in spite of the heat. "Hallo!" Why, it was the worthy Due, Kalle's son-in-law; and above him, in the midst of all the lumber, sat Anna and the children, swaying to and fro with the motion of the cart. "Hullo!"
The driver sat in front, below the load, almost between the horses; he was tall and had ruddy cheeks, and was monstrously wrapped up, in spite of the heat. "Hallo!" Why, it was the worthy Due, Kalle's son-in-law; and above him, in the midst of all the lumber, sat Anna and the children, swaying to and fro with the motion of the cart. "Hullo!"
Kalle's so free with his money." The old woman closed her eyes. She had tired herself out, after all. "Now I think we'll creep out into the other room, and let her be quiet," whispered Kalle, getting up; but at that she opened her eyes. "Are you going already?" she asked. "We thought you were asleep, grandmother," said Lasse.
"When we take Anna's too, it makes fourteen." "Oh, yes, count the others too, and you'll get off all the easier!" said Kalle teasingly. Lasse was looking at Anna's child, which lay side by side with Kalle's thirteenth. "She looks healthier than her aunt," he said. "You'd scarcely think they were the same age. She's just as red as the other's pale."
On the heath near Brother Kalle's, there was a house that he could have without paying anything down. He often discussed it with Pelle, and the boy was ready for anything new. It should be a wife who could look after everything and make the house comfortable; and above all she must be a hard-working woman.
"So David was a buck like that, and yet he walked in the sight of God all the same! Well, God's long-suffering is great there's no mistake about that!" There was a knock at the outer door. It was one of Kalle's children with the message that grandmother would like to bid them good-bye before she passed away. "Then she can't have long to live," exclaimed Lasse.
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