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"Good-bye, Sivert man," says he all at once. "No, I can't get up to Sellanraa this time, after all; tell your father. I've a heap of things to see to. But I'll come later on say that...." Aronsen spits after him, and says: "Ought to be shot!" For three days the caravan peddles its wares, selling out the contents of the sacks, and getting good prices. It was a brilliant piece of business.
Higher up, things went more slowly, for all that the soil was richer that way. The one who had ventured farthest was Isak, when he settled down at Sellanraa; he was the boldest and the wisest of them all. Later, Axel Ström had come and now there was a new man besides. The new man was to have a big patch of arable land and forest down below Maaneland there was land enough.
Here at Sellanraa there was nothing of that sort; Jensine, the servant-maid, was a mere nothing, a worker and no more, rather suited to Sivert. "I've a fancy to see how that girl Barbro from Breidablik turned out now she's grown up," said Eleseus one day. "Well, go down to Axel Ström's place and see," said Sivert. Eleseus went down one Sunday.
"And a mighty useful thing to have on a bit of a farm," says he ay, calling Sellanraa a bit of a farm, no more! "Where did you get hold of it?" "Up at the mine. Engineer, he gave me the thing for a present, he said." "The company's engineer?" says Geissler, as if he had not understood. And Geissler, was he to be outdone by an engineer on a copper mine?
And now it was that the little chief clerk from Storborg, Andresen, came up to Sellanraa one Sunday, and Inger was not in the least affected, far from it; she did not so much as go in herself to give him a mug of milk, but sent Leopoldine in with it, by reason that Jensine the maid was out.
"I'll not touch her flowers again," said Oline. But the flowers were already dead. Again, how could it be that the Lapps came up to Sellanraa so frequently of late? Os-Anders, for instance, had no business there at all, he should have passed on his way.
Ay, a madcap was Gustaf, but he knew what he was doing! Then after a bit he would go into the shop and throw his money about, buying up a whole knapsack full of things. And when he went back up the road again, it was with a whole little stock-in-trade of his own and he would stop at Sellanraa on the way and open his pack and show them.
That same evening, a man came up from the village with a basket he handed out some bottles to the workmen, and went off again. But after he had gone, it was no longer so quiet about the place; some one played an accordion, the men talked loudly, and there was singing, and even dancing, at Sellanraa.
A great one he must be for knowing things, all manner of things. Anyway, when the gentlemen up at the mine had Geissler's answer, there was nothing for it but they must bestir themselves and come all the way down to Sellanraa again. The engineer and the two mining experts came with them. So many crooked ways and turnings were there before that meeting was brought about.
We said but Goddag and Farvel, for all that I'd known her from she was a toddling child all that time I was here at Sellanraa by reason of you being away and learning knowledge at the Institute...." "There's Rebecca crying," said Inger, breaking in on Oline. But she gave her a handful of wool.
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