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Updated: June 25, 2025
Sat in state in the Stiftsgaarden till two o'clock; forgot door-key and a pocket-book with a thousand kroner at home. Show this gentleman up to the reserved section!"... All at once out goes the gas with a strange suddenness, without diminishing or flickering. I sit in the deepest darkness; I cannot see my hand, nor the white walls nothing.
"I'll soon have that brought along!" said the man, and he answered everything with a jolly "I'll soon arrange that; you just leave that to me!" When three days had gone by, he presented Pelle with a circumstantial account, which amounted exactly to five and twenty kroner. It was a curious chance that Pelle had just that amount of money.
When the Dannebrog drifted on the shoals, abandoned and burning, Willemoes cut his cables and got away under cover of the heavy smoke. Having neither sails nor oars, he was at the mercy of the tide, but luckily it carried him to the north of the Tre Kroner battery, and he reached port with forty-nine of his crew of one hundred and twenty-nine dead or wounded.
Who could fail to be warmed by her? Now the room is warm once more. Hanne is like a blazing meteor that kindles all as it circles round; where she glides past the fire springs up and the blood runs warmly in the veins. They overturn the chairs in their eagerness to dance with her. "Hi, steward! Five kroner on my watch only be quick!" "Ach, Hanne, a dance with me!"
A fall of snow would entice the dwellers therein out of their hiding- places; it made the air milder, and made it possible, too, to earn a few kroner for sweeping away the snow. Then they disappeared again, falling into a kind of numb trance and supporting their life on incredibly little on nothing at all. Only in the mornings were the streets peopled when the men went out to seek work.
Sivert offered to stake twenty Kroner in notes against the gold piece, and do all the digging himself into the bargain if he won; but Andresen took offence at that. "Ho," said he, "and you'd like to go back home, no doubt, and say I'm no good at working on the land!"
"Well, now, what do you think of our home?" said Father Lasse, looking proudly about him. "We pay only four kroner a month for it, and all the furniture we get for nothing mother and I have brought it all here from the refuse-heaps, every stick of it, even the stove. Just look at this straw mattress, now it's really not bad, but the rich folks threw it away!
"Once, when he came into town here to be apprenticed he had five kroner; and as for what he spent them on, he could never give any proper account!" Sort laughed. "Then I shall travel as I stand!" said Pelle resolutely. But that wouldn't do, either! He could not by any means please both they were like two anxious clucking hens. He had no lack of linen, for Lasse had just thought of his own supply.
And then his mother must needs come out on the door-slab and hiccup again and say, "God bless you!" and give him something. "Take this and you're not to thank him, he says you're not to. And don't forget to write; write often." Two hundred Kroner.
He could not strike a decent chord, but he had a good ear; whenever he screwed up a string, he was careful to screw it back again exactly where it was before, so the instrument at any rate was none the worse. I got into talk with one of the farm-hands, a young fellow. He got two hundred Kroner a year, he said, besides his board.
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