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Updated: June 14, 2025
The thought filled her with despair again, and wild pictures arose in her mind Veyergang falling and lying stretched upon the snow, and then Nikolai's arms with the handcuffs on them stretching up out of the factory waterfall.
The Consul had Nikolai placed on trial as apprentice in a smithy down by the crane, and from Mrs. Veyergang she received one thing after another, as remembrances. But when, one day, the Consul very thoughtfully made her a present of one of his old travelling trunks, she let her large, heavy person sink down upon its lid, completely overwhelmed.
Nikolai suddenly disengaged himself with a jerk, and the next moment, emerging from the darkness, thrust himself between them. Silla uttered a cry of terror, but Nikolai only gave her a half-glance, and flung her behind him and thus stood face to face with Veyergang.
Barbara's opinion afterwards about Silla's behaviour her having all at once turned crimson, and rushed away at a few innocent words from such a well-meaning and handsome man as Ludvig Veyergang her son heard the same evening. A young girl ought to stand modestly, and not go on like that: if she did, it was a sure way of getting all that could be called man-folk at her heels.
Veyergang, the latter always turned the conversation indeed, once she even dismissed the subject, saying that Barbara must know that she never meddled with such things. But the kindness increased as the day of her departure approached. Barbara began to perceive how this screw of kindness, that turned so gently, was screwing her farther and farther out of the house.
But, Nikolai, you won't tell. It was a certain person who treated us." "Indeed!" "He came up to see that they did not light the bonfire too near the wood. Yes, you must know, Nikolai, that it was no less a person than young Veyergang! There was a Midsummer party at his father's, and they were to see the fire from the stairs at exactly half-past eleven. "And then he treated them to punch? You too?"
It would not be closed and packed up before midnight, so she must stay down there these few nights. There was a buzzing and singing in Silla's ears; it was as if the door were opening to her of itself. She could go now if she liked. She was almost frightened. As she was taking some washing home in the afternoon, down the street, young Veyergang suddenly brushed close by her.
There they sat, the more ripely-developed youth of the town, in rows up in the rooms of the Veyergang firm's great factory, and minded the whirring shuttles, balls and rollers Swedish Lena, and Stina, and Kristofa, and Kalla, and Josefa and Gunda, and all the rest of them. Had any one asked them about their parents, they would now and then have been hard put to it for an answer.
Young Veyergang received a push that made him drop his pencil-case; and pens, lead and slate pencils lay strewn over the ground. "Pick them up, you beggar!" he cried to Nikolai, for it was he who had knocked up against him. "I shall tell about you at home, you may be pretty sure. Pick them up, or " A kick sent a few loose lumps of snow in answer.
He swung the bundle, with the box in it, about him so that nobody could come near him, and darted like a flash of lightning upon Veyergang, exclaiming between his teeth: "It's the last time in your life that you'll say that!" One hand fumbled with Veyergang's coat, and the other dealt him a blow with the full weight of the box, so that he fell backwards on to the snow.
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