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He shudders, and shrinks from her touch, as from a reptile. A look of scorn, and she turns from him, and is lost among the grotesque crowd in the distance. "This gin," says Mr. Fitzgerald, turning methodically to Brother Spyke, "they make do for food and clothing. We used to call this the devil's paradise. As to Krone, we used to call him the devil's bar-tender.
A group of half-naked negroes lie insensible on the floor, to the right. A little further on two prostrate females, shivering, and reeking of gin, sleep undisturbed by the profanity that is making the very air resound. "The gin gets a-many of us," is the mournful cry of many a wasting inebriate. Mr. Krone, however, will tell you he has no sympathy with such cries.
'Yes, mother, but then the one dozen will cost an ore more. And eggs, they cost one krone twenty a score where the rich folks buy them but here! 'No, my dear madam, if you take two eggs you must pay fifteen ore! That makes eight ore for an egg, for if one takes the smallest quantity the profits aren't in proportion. It's hard to be poor.
You may read on this sign, that a gentleman from Ireland, who for convenience' sake we will call Mr. Krone, is licensed to sell imported and other liquors. Indeed the house of the Nine Nations would seem to say within itself: "I am mother of this banquet of death you behold with your eyes."
"They earn one bright krone after another in there. But what's to be done with you? You're too little to use a tool." This stubborn fact put a stop for the moment to Pelle's plans; but then his courage rose again. "I can quite well go with you to the town," he said. "For I shall " He nodded significantly. "What?" asked Lasse, with interest.
"They earn one bright krone after another in there. But what's to be done with you? You're too little to use a tool." This stubborn fact put a stop for the moment to Pelle's plans; but then his courage rose again. "I can quite well go with you to the town," he said. "For I shall " He nodded significantly. "What?" asked Lasse, with interest.
And where he was used to hear that voice his ear encountered only solitude. He did nothing to arouse himself; he was for the present idle. This or that employer was after him, truly, for they all knew that he was a quick and reliable worker, and would willingly have taken him as apprentice, for a krone a week and his food.
The man of the house of the Nine Nations, you ought to know, makes criminals by the hundred, deluges your alms houses with paupers, and makes your Potters' field reek with his victims: for this he is become rich. Mr. Krone is an intimate friend of more than one Councilman, and a man of much measure in the political world that is, Mr. Krone is a politician-maker.
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.
'Yes, mother, but then the one dozen will cost an ore more. And eggs, they cost one krone twenty a score where the rich folks buy them but here! 'No, my dear madam, if you take two eggs you must pay fifteen ore! That makes eight ore for an egg, for if one takes the smallest quantity the profits aren't in proportion. It's hard to be poor.
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