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The cake steamed up in the frosty air under his nose, so warm, and spicy, and rich, that Oddo began to wonder what so very superior a cake could be like. He had never tasted any cake so rich as this, nor had any one in the house tasted such: for Nipen would be offended if his cake was not richer than anybody's else.
Hund stared at Oddo, and his voice was yet hoarser when he said that he had long thought that boy was a favourite with Nipen; and he was sure of it now. Erica had thrown herself down on the sand, hiding her face on her hands, on the edge of the boat, as if in despair of her misery being attended to, her questions answered.
Rolf's hearty laugh was silent; perhaps for ever. Oddo was an inmate still, but Oddo was much altered of late, and who could wonder? Though the boy was strangely unbelieving about some things, he could not but feel how wonders and misfortunes had crowded upon one another since the night of his defiance of Nipen. From the hour of Hund's return, the boy had hardly been heard to speak.
But the more they considered the case, the more improbable it seemed that Rolf should have escaped drowning. "Mother, what do you think?" whispered the gentle Orga. "I think, my dear, that we shall never forgive ourselves for letting Rolf go out in that old skiff." "Then you think, you feel quite sure, mother, that Nipen had nothing to do with it."
I know just how far you will ride. When we get the first sight of the grass waving, as the wind sweeps over it on the mountain side, you will spring from the cart, and walk with me all the rest of the way." "All this would be well," said Erica, "if it were not for " "For what, love? For Nipen, again!
"Right, Oddo," exclaimed Rolf, now. "But I was not quite certain: and how could I say a word against it when I was the one to provoke Nipen? Now Rolf is safe, and Erica will be happy again, and I shall not feel as if everybody's eyes were upon me, and know that it is only out of kindness that they do not reproach me as having done all the mischief.
He took first a sup, and then a draught: and then he remembered that the rest would be entirely spoiled by the frost if it stood another hour. This would be a pity, he thought; so he finished it, saying to himself that he did not believe Nipen would come that night. At that very moment he heard a cry so dreadful that it shot, like sudden pain, through every nerve of his body.
I will just wait another minute, however." He leaned in silence on his folded arms; and had not so waited for many seconds before he saw something moving on the snow at a little distance. It came nearer and nearer, and at last quite up to the can of ale. "I am glad I stayed," thought Oddo. "Now I can say I have seen Nipen. It is much less terrible than I expected.
A baffling wind would be our only defence; and we cannot expect that much from Nipen to-day." "I will do anything in the world," cried Oddo, eagerly. "Send me anywhere. Do think of something that I can do." "What must be done, Peder?" asked his mistress. "There is quite enough to fear, Erica, without a word of Nipen. Pirates on the coast, and one farm-house seen burning already!"
"She knows how to act to-night," said Peder; "and she is going into danger for her lover, instead of waiting at home while her lover goes into danger for her. A hundred pirates in the fiord would not make her tremble as she trembled last night. Rather a hundred pirates than Nipen angry, she would say." "There is her weakness," observed her mistress.
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