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Updated: July 14, 2025
No one said "Poor boy" of him now. The other boys left off calling him bad names; the grown-ups said he had a future before him. "You'll see," they would say, "that father of yours will get you on; you'll be a parson yet, ay, maybe a bishop, too." At Christmas, there came a ten-crown note all for himself, to do just as he liked with.
These last words seemed to irritate Milde; he took out of his pocketbook a ten-crown bill which he threw across the table to Coldevin. He said furiously: "There take your money! I had almost forgotten that I owed you this money, but I trust you understand that you can go now!" Coldevin coloured deeply. He took the bill slowly. "You do not thank me very politely for the loan," he said.
Playing away a couple of thousand crowns in a single night, or lighting his pipe with ten-crown notes, were among the things Uncle did. Thus they drove on, and thus they talked while they were driving. They arrived toward evening. Uncle's "residence," as he called it, did not stand by the ironworks.
Katrine," he called into the kitchen, "get hold of the Bandmaster quick, and tell him to come along give him plenty of drink too, for he must be thawed before you get anything out of him." "No fear about that," said Lars Peter airily, putting a ten-crown piece on the table, which the inn-keeper quickly pocketed. "That's right, old man that's doing the thing properly," said he appreciatively.
He saw and heard nothing of what happened around him. Instinctively he walked toward the basement restaurant where he usually took his meals. He went down and ordered something. Hurriedly he ate everything that was placed before him; apparently he had not eaten for a long while. And when he was through he took out the ten-crown bill and paid his check from that.
Then something new and unheard of plumped down into the little cottage by the fjord. There came a registered letter with great dabs of sealing-wax all over it, and a handwriting so gentlemanly as to be almost unreadable. Every one crowded round the eldest son to see it opened and out fell five ten-crown notes. "Mercy on us!" they cried in amazement, and "Can it be for us?"
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