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The Breidablik woman felt a sting at the sight; the cloak she could have done without thank heaven, she set no store by such foolishness! but ... she had children of her own Barbro, a great girl already, Helge, the next, and Kathrine, all of an age for school.
The knocking was heard again. "Come in," said madame softly. The door slowly opened, and Saint Nicholas, in full array, stood before them. You could have heard a pin drop. Soon he spoke. What a mysterious majesty in his voice! What kindliness in his tones! "Karel van Gleck, I am pleased to greet thee, and thy honored vrouw Kathrine, and thy son and his good vrouw Annie! "Children, I greet ye all!
"You be Queen Kathrine, you alley-cat." So the nightly teaching began with the usual accompaniment of curses, blows, and shouts of brutal laughter. But when it was over and the lodger was sinking to the third stage that came inevitably with the bottom of the bottle, he kept looking at his pupil queerly. "Oh, you would! Oh, you would, would you?" He said it over and over again.