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"That's no good omen," she whispered; "they are digging a grave for one of us." Before the church stood a baptismal party, one godmother holding a child on her arm. "That means a child-bed for one of us," whispered Uli, to comfort Freneli. "Yes, that I'm to die in one," she answered; "that I must leave my happiness for the cold grave."
"Well," said Uli, "as you will; but I thought this way: couldn't the milker help in the threshing during the morning and the afternoon, too, if the others help with the manure and the foddering at noon? And sometimes two can do more in the woods than a whole gang, when nobody wants to take hold."
Uli, order another bottle. Keep still now, girl, and don't interrupt me," continued her aunt, and she went on to tell how she should feel if they both went away; what evil days awaited her; shed painful tears over her own children, and said that she could still be made happy if it might turn out as she had thought it through in her sleepless nights.
The commotion of the day and the driving lulled the old woman into deep sleep, and Uli, with tense muscles, held in the wildly racing Blackie to a moderately fast pace; Freneli was alone in the wide world.
Come, take your glass and drink health to Uli, and promise him that you'll be the wife of the leaseholder of Slough Farm." Freneli stood up, took her glass and drank the health, but made no promise, only begging them to leave her in peace for today, and say no more about it; tomorrow, if must be, she would give her answer. "You're a queer Jenny," said her aunt.
But as soon as he became indifferent to her sulks, Elsie grew anxious and sought a reconciliation; then she would buy him something, or seek some other opportunity to flatter Uli, and beg him to love her, for she had no other joy in life.
Was it something hard or repulsive that was asked of her? Now her spirit unveiled its pictures, peopled the desolate future with them. Uli was her husband; she had taken root in life, in the broad world; they were the centre about which a great household revolved, circling about their will.
"You're doing well," continued the master after some further talk, "and what do I hear? Folks say you're soon to be farmer at Slough Farm." "Why, who says that?" asked Uli. "Oh, folks say it's being talked about far and wide, and they say it's surely true." "Folks always know more than those concerned," said Uli. "There must be something in it," answered the master.
After supper Uli came to the master and asked him what was to be done during the winter; it seemed to him that the work should be so arranged that one should be all ready for the new work when the spring came. Yes, said Joggeli, that might be good; but one couldn't do everything all at once; things had to take their time.
Elsie was always quarreling with Freneli, and Freneli was going to leave on account of it; Uli too; everything came on her, and she didn't know for the life of her what to do; many a night she hadn't closed an eye and just cried and cried because such misfortune had come to her in her old age.
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