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And she told the story of Oddo's prank, and implored the doctor to say if anything could be done to avert bad consequences. "No doubt," replied Olaf. "Look here! This will preserve you from any particular evil that you dread."
As may be supposed from Oddo's declaring that he was sometimes frightened, he was a brave boy.
"Ay! here it comes," observed M. Kollsen, folding his arms, as if for an argument. Encouraged by the bishop, Erica told the whole story of the last few months, from the night of Oddo's prank to that which found her at the feet of her friend, for she had cast herself down at the bishop's feet, sitting as she had done in her childhood, looking up in his face.
"Excellent!" exclaimed M. Kollsen. "How admirably they are conducting the whole affair! The retreat of these fellows is completely cut off, their vessel taken, and driven ashore, while they are busy elsewhere." "That is Oddo's doing," observed Orga, quietly. "Oddo's doing! How do you know? Are you serious? Can you see? Or did you hear?"
She answered with so much alacrity to Oddo's question whether she was not very weary, that he ventured to say two things which had before been upon his tongue, without his having courage to utter them. "You will not be so afraid of Nipen any more," observed he, glancing at her face, of which he could see every feature by the quivering light. "You see how well everything has turned out." "O, hush!
It chilled Peder's heart to remember the aspect of the precipice which his boy talked of climbing; but he said nothing, feeling that it would be in vain. This forbearance touched Oddo's feelings. "I will run into no folly, trust me," said he.
This was now out of the question; and stealthily therefore she pulled her little craft into the deepest shadow, and crept into the cove. At a little distance from the entrance it widened; but it was a wonder to Erica that even Oddo's eyes should have seen Hund moor his boat here from the other side of the fiord; though the fiord was not more than a gunshot over in this part.
It was Oddo's desire that the place should remain vacant till he could show that he, young as he was, was worth as much as Hund. If any one was hired, he wished that it might be a herd-boy, under him; and strenuously did he toil, this spring, to show that he was now beyond a mere herd-boy's place.
Within the memory of man, no bride had been prettier, no crown more glittering, no bridegroom more happy; no chanting was ever more soothing than old Peder's no clarionet better played than Oddo's, no bridesmaids more gay and kindly than Orga and Frolich.
"I feel confident, my dear, that there is no such being as Nipen." "Even after all that has happened? after this, following upon Oddo's prank that night?" "Even so, Orga.
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