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"And here I am at last! Skaal!" "Welcome home," said Merle, lifting her glass with a smile. He rang the bell. "What do you want?" her eyes asked. "Champagne," said Peer to the maid, who appeared and vanished again. "Are you crazy, Peer?"
And the air, Merle the air received them, and vibrated for a second and that was all. And even so our prayers go up, to this very day. We press our warm lips to a cold stone, and think to leave an impression. Skaal!" But Merle did not touch her glass; she sat still, with her eyes on the yellow lampshade.
"Why aren't we dancing?" "She owes me an explanation of this," I said to myself, and watched for an opportunity to speak with her. She went into a side room, and I followed her. "Skaal," I said, and lifted a glass to drink with her. "I have nothing in my glass," she answered shortly. But her glass was standing in front of her, quite full. "I thought that was your glass."
These small dormitories were separated by partitions of planks into bedrooms with one or several beds, and shut away from the outer SKAAL either by a sliding-door in the wall or by an ordinary door shutting with a hasp. Sometimes only a hanging covered the opening."
"Towards the latter part of the tenth century the skaal was used as common sleeping-room for the whole family, including servants and serfs; it was fitted up in the same way as the hall. Like this, it was divided in three naves by rows of wooden pillars; the middle floor was lower than that of the two side naves.
"A stone," exclaimed Captain W , "thrown into a brook dams it not, but swells the current only to make it run swifter. What will you have? "Min skaal og din skaal, Alla vackra flickors skaal;" and chanting these two lines of a Swedish drinking-song, he threw himself back in his chair, and emptied his overflowing glass.
"In the further end of the skaal, facing the door, opened out one or several small bedrooms, destined for the husband with wife and children, besides other members of the family, including guests of a higher standing.
She had not yet given up all her dreams of going forth and conquering the world with her music and he sat there rolling out eternity itself before her, while he and she herself, her parents, all, all became as chaff blown before the wind and vanished. "What, won't you drink with me? Well, well then I must pledge you by myself. Skaal!"