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Updated: May 16, 2025
Widow Hoest gave him a ten-ore piece, and he could not help reflecting that she had given him her mid-day meal for two days to come! One day, as he was passing the miserable hovels which lay out by the northern dunes, a poor young woman came to her door and called to him; she held the remains of a pair of elastic-sided boots in her hand.
The semi-darkness of the sunless workshop bleached his skin and filled him with unhealthy imaginations. He did little work now on his own account; but he had learned to manage with very little. Whenever he contrived to get hold of a ten-ore piece, he bought a savings-stamp, so that in this way he was able to collect a few shillings, until they had grown to quite a little sum.
The semi-darkness of the sunless workshop bleached his skin and filled him with unhealthy imaginations. He did little work now on his own account; but he had learned to manage with very little. Whenever he contrived to get hold of a ten-ore piece, he bought a savings-stamp, so that in this way he was able to collect a few shillings, until they had grown to quite a little sum.
"Frederik!" a sharp voice cried from one of the corridors. "Run and get a score of firewood and a white roll a ten-ore one. But look out the grocer counts the score properly and don't pick out the crumb!" Madam Olsen with the warm wall was frying pork. She couldn't pull her range out onto the gallery, but she did let the pork burn so that the whole courtyard was filled with bluish smoke.
"Frederik!" a sharp voice cried from one of the corridors. "Run and get a score of firewood and a white roll a ten-ore one. But look out the grocer counts the score properly and don't pick out the crumb!" Madam Olsen with the warm wall was frying pork. She couldn't pull her range out onto the gallery, but she did let the pork burn so that the whole courtyard was filled with bluish smoke.
Widow Hoest gave him a ten-ore piece, and he could not help reflecting that she had given him her mid-day meal for two days to come! One day, as he was passing the miserable hovels which lay out by the northern dunes, a poor young woman came to her door and called to him; she held the remains of a pair of elastic-sided boots in her hand.
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