vording's

Updated: June 1, 2025

Arnfinn Vording's career had presented that subtle combination of farce and tragedy which most human lives are apt to be; and if the tragic element had during his early years been preponderating, he was hardly himself aware of it; for he had been too young at the death of his parents to feel that keenness of grief which the same privation would have given him at a later period of his life.

Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen - Tales from Two Hemispheres