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"If so be I shouldn't get better this time and get about again on earth I'll take care you're not left out." Oline declared that she was speechless, but speechless she was not; she wept and was touched to the heart and grateful; there was none to compare with Oline for finding the immediate connection between a worldly gift and being "repaid a thousandfold eternally in the world to come."
'Tis but this summer and a bit of a way to next winter, and you've the lambing season once more, and three times as many again." Oh, that woman Oline! Isak went off grumbling like a bear. "Fool I was not to murder her the first day!" he thought, calling himself all manner of names. "Idiot, lump of rubbish that I was! But it's not too late yet; just wait, let her go to the cowshed if she likes.
He's not named after me and called by my earthly name let him come." But for all the threatening tone, Sivert only thought a moment, and said: "Ay, I'll tell Eleseus to come." Oline was still at Sellanraa when Sivert got back. She had found time to pay a visit lower down, to Axel Ström and Barbro on their place, and came back full of mysteries and whisperings.
I wish I may never move alive from this spot if I ever so much as spoke his name." Brilliant success for Oline. Isak has to give in, as he has done many a time before. But Oline had more to say. "And if you mean I'm to go here clean barefoot, with the winter coming on and all, and never own the like of a pair of shoes, why, you'll please to say so.
"Just to come up for a few days in the off time once, and look to the creatures here while we're away?" Ay, Oline would do that. "We'll see it's no loss to you after." Why, as to that, she'd leave it to them.... "And you're building again, I see. Now what'll that be for? Isn't there built enough?" Inger sees her chance and puts in here: "Why, you must ask him about that. I'm not to know."
He made her a present of a young wether; after all, she had been with him a long time, and worked for little pay. And Oline had not been so bad with the children; she was not stern and strictly righteous and that sort of thing, but had a knack of dealing with children: listened to what they said, and let them do more or less as they pleased.
And from across the hills came Oline, the imperishable Oline. This time, too, she brought news with her from her own village; 'twas not Oline's way to come empty of gossip. Old Sivert's affairs had been gone into, his accounts reckoned up, and the fortune remaining after him come to nothing. Nothing! Here Oline pressed her lips together and looked from one to another.
But Oline was not going to mind what she was saying; not in the least, he he! She turned up her eyes to heaven and hinted that a hare-lip might be this or that, but some folk seemed to carry it too far, he he! Isak may well have been glad to get safely out of the house at last. And what could he do but get Oline the shoes?
"That's all I make it," answered Oline gently. "But you'd better count for yourself and see." Now was his time he could do it now: reach out with his hands and alter the shape of Oline considerably, with but one good grip. He could do it. He did not do it, but said boldly, making for the door: "I'll say no more just now."
Axel cuts in quickly with a word to Brede: "I don't know how I'd ever have got home this night but for you." And he does not forget Oline: "And you, Oline, that was the first to find me. I've to thank you both for it all." That was how Axel was saved.... The next few days Oline would talk of nothing but the great event; Axel was hard put to it to keep her within bounds.
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