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'Tis true enough, as he says, not selling so much as a Krone all day, for he's no stock in the place at all. And what does he want with a chief clerk, then? I doubt it'll be just by way of looking grand and making a show, must have a man there to stand at a desk and write up things in books. Ha ha ha! ay, looks like he's just a little bit touched that way, is Aronsen."
And they stand there and stare and wait; but let them wait; nothing happens, for now the 'Great Power' has got control of himself! And then all at once it's there behind! Hit away! Eight in the thick of the heap! Send them all to hell, the scoundrels! 'Cause a man must drink, in order to keep his energies in check.... Well, and there she sits! Can one of you lend me a krone?" "Not I!" said Jens.
Krone, and the colored gentleman, whom she declares has a dozen white females in his room every night. The detective encourages her by saying it is not right of Mr. Krone, who looks more at the color of his money than the skin of his tenants. "To come of a dacint family and be brought to this!" says Mrs.
While they were still talking over what should be done with the piano, the landlord of the Krone in Lower Wood drove up with an empty wagon and took the piano, the beds, the table and the two easy chairs, for everything had been hired from him; but he had been paid in advance up to this time. So nothing was left for the little boy but the velvet suit that he wore.
She took one out at once, and gave it to him. From the rose he looked at her; she laughed and asked if he would take a little off the price of the shawl; she had not quite enough money left. "How much have you?" he asked. "Just half a krone too little," she replied. He himself wrapped up the shawl for her.
I went into a hotel in Paris and paid ten francs a day for a room for myself and wife, and when we left they charged me one franc forty a day extra for sweeping it out and making the bed!" "That's nothing. Here in Innsbruck they charge you half a krone a day taxes." "What! You don't say!" "Sure thing. And if you don't eat breakfast in the hotel they charge you a krone for it anyhow."
"Marker's a louse!" Marker had succeeded in stealing one of the oldest customers of the workshop. "There isn't salt to eat an egg!" "Well, what shall I do?" asked Pelle, somewhat impatiently. The master sat for a while in silence. "Well, take it, then!" he cried, and threw a krone toward Pelle; "I have no peace from you so long as I've got a farthing in my pocket, you demon!
'I only wish I'd never set my foot in this hole, and a poor thing it's been for me and mine. Then I asked him if he didn't think of selling out himself. 'Ay, says he, 'that's just what I'm thinking of. This bit of bogland, says he, 'a hole and a desert I'm not making a single Krone the whole day now, says he." They laughed at Aronsen, and had no pity for him at all.
She said she would stay with the Fraulein for her keep, because it was not the custom for young ladies to be alone in the city young girls of the people, of course; but beautiful young ladies, no! Harmony gave her an extra krone or two out of sheer gratitude, but she could not keep her.
"Yes, and the day after to-morrow we shall say to-day," said Lasse, with a juvenile fling. They opened their eyes upon an incomprehensibly brilliant world, and did not at first remember that this was the day. Lasse had anticipated his wages to the amount of five krones, and had got an old cottager to do his work for half a krone and his meals.
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