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Roch with his dog and shells, St. John the Baptist in his sheepskin, and, most ridiculous of all, poor Vincent de Paul carrying three naked children in his arms, like a midwife's advertisement. This frightful exhibition, which was of the nature of the Tussaud Museum or a masquerade, positively frightened Amedee.
The womenfolk must have read something in his eyes, or caught something in his tone that pleased them: for the midwife's mouth had a peculiar quirk and the other women all burst out laughing. "Say Jan, have you never cared so much for somebody that your heart has been set athrobbing because of her?" asked the midwife. "No indeed!" said Jan.
"Your wife's Danish," said Lasse, admiringly. "And you've got a cow too?" "Yes, it's a biggish place here," said Kalle, drawing himself up. "There's a cat belonging to the establishment too, and as many rats as it cares to eat." His wife now appeared, breathless, and looking in astonishment at the visitors. "Yes, the midwife's gone again," said Kalle.
You must put your best foot foremost!" he called in a low voice. "The midwife's here!" "What in the world does she want? It's a story, you old fool!" And the sound of milk squirting into the pail began again. "A story, is it? No, but you must come in and go to bed; she says it's high time you did. You are keeping up much too long this year.
There was one difference, indeed, that in Caley's eye money was the chief thing, while power itself was the Swedenborgian hell of the midwife's bliss.
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