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Updated: June 11, 2025
You do this and we've done with one another!" roared Stolpe, striking the table. "But you won't do it, you shan't do it! God damn me, I couldn't live through the shame of seeing the comrades condemning my own brother in the open street! And I shall be with them! I shall be the first to give you a kick, if you are my brother!" He was quite beside himself.
"You are quite wet, child." "No, I must go out again at once," Ellen replied. "I only wanted to peep in." "But it's really very late," grumbled Stolpe. "Are you only off duty now?" "Yes, it's not my going-out day." "Not to-day again? Yes, it's sheer slavery, till eleven at night!" "That's the way things are, and it doesn't make it any better for you to scold me," said Ellen courageously.
Something big must happen in return! A few of the men had brought out sandwiches and began to eat them as they debated. "Good digestion!" said Pelle, nodding farewell to them. His mouth was watering, and he remembered that he had had nothing to eat or drink. But he had no time to think about it; he must go to Stolpe to arrange about the posting of the pickets.
Every time I went out of the kitchen door I'd find a filthy rag of dishcloth hung over the handle, and they smeared much worse things than that over the door and whose doing was it? I never told father; he would have been so enraged he would have torn the whole house down to find the guilty person. No, father had enough to contend against already. But now: 'Ah, here comes Stolpe Hurrah!
"It would please my father and mother too, if they could make your acquaintance," said Otto Stolpe. "Would you care to come home with us?" "I can't very well this evening; I have some one with me," replied Pelle. "You go with them," said Madam Johnsen. "I see some folks from Kristianshavn back there, I can go home with them."
Stolpe was pottering about waiting for his breakfast; he had been at work early that morning. "What's the girl doing?" he asked. "We never see her now." "She has such a lot to do," said Pelle apologetically. "And now she's going out to work as well." "Well, well, with things as they are she's not too fine to lend a hand. But we don't really know what's amiss with her she's a rebellious nature!
Meyer stood there like a wall, in the way of any real progress, but he needn't think he could strike at Pelle, for he'd get a blow in return if he did! He went straight to Mason Stolpe, in order to talk the matter over with him; the old trades unionist was a man of great experience. "So he's one of those who go in for the open slave-trade!" said Stolpe. "We've had a go at them before now.
"Things look bad now in most trades, but you see yourself, how everything is drawing to a great crisis. Give progress a kick behind and ask her to hurry herself a little there's something to be gained by that. A man ought to marry while he's still young; what's the good of going about and hankering after one another?" Madam Stolpe was, as always, of his opinion.
So he was forced to give in, and wrote to Pelle requesting him to enter into negotiations in order to put an end to the unrest affecting the craft. Pelle, who as yet possessed no skill in negotiations, answered Meyer in a very casual manner, practically sending him about his business. He showed his reply to his father-in-law before dispatching it. "No, deuce take it, that won't do!" said Stolpe.
"Well, I suppose I may as well give in at once, and own that I've played the fool. Shall we agree to let bygones be bygones, son-in-law?" extending his hand to Pelle. When once the reconciliation was effected, Stolpe became quite cheerful. "I never dreamt I should see you so soon, least of all with a baby!" he said contentedly, stroking Ellen's face with his rough hand.
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