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"It's all right with me, teacher!" he exclaimed "it's all right with me! You know that hymn I've tried to learn so many times, and couldn't make out. The first line came into my head yesterday in our troubles 'God is our stronghold and defence; but I could not get any further." "Perhaps that was far enough just then, Nils," said Tora.
As for Tora, sitting in a low chair in the midst of her possessions, she went rattling over the cobble-stones, if not more proud at least more happy of heart than a conqueror of old at the head of a Roman triumph. She had reached the goal towards which she had long been striving. She was now an independent worker, with a profession by which she could earn an honourable living.
I would not advise you, though, little Tora, to try singing to make money. It might do for Jenny Lind, but I hardly think it would suit for you." The little girl's countenance fell. The friendly stranger went on, "How would you like to be a little schoolmistress? That would be a nice way for you to take care of yourself, and maybe help all at home, by-and-by.
"Heave ho!" shouted Nils, as he put his strong shoulders to the work of moving the boats, while the mistress held on to the horses. One by one the boats were put in what Tora deemed proper position, the square prows curiously tilted up to the broad window-seat. Then came the orders "Climb to the top of the shutter, Nils! Pass that rope round the upper hinge; tie it fast!
The first few notes were right, though tremblingly given; then came a quivering and a faltering and a falsity that made the doctor's boys cover their laughing mouths with their hands, while their eyes twinkled with suppressed merriment. Just then there was a queer buzzing noise in the room, by which the tune was carried on, and Tora fell in with fresh courage.
When he approached the capital, the sultan himself went out to meet him, followed by the vizier, the chief cadi, and the chief emirs and notabilities of the town. Even the Jews and Christians had to take part in the procession, carrying respectively the Tora and the Gospel.
'From Mount Seir to the City of the Friend, what have you seen in the joyful land? 'We found the sons of Hamar by the well-side of Jumda; we found the marks of many camels in the pass of Gharendel, and the marks in the pass of Gharendel were not the marks of the camels of the Beni-Hamar. 'I had a dream, and the children of Tora said to me, "Who art thou in the hands of our father's flocks?
Besides the two above named, these modern plays of Bjoernson are, with their dates, the following: "The King" , "Leonarda" , "The New System" , "A Glove" , "Beyond the Strength I." , "Geography and Love" , "Beyond the Strength II." , "Paul Lange and Tora Parsberg" , "Laboremus" , and "At Storhove" . Since the cessation of Ibsen's activity, Bjoernson has outrun him in the race, adding "Daglannet" , and "When the New Wine Blooms" to the list above given.
He was too, in a way, a teacher for the schoolmistress herself, and had his credentials from the very highest authority. The class increased as years went on, and was ever a delightful source of interest to the happy instructress. The children did not call her "teacher," or "mistress," or even "Miss Tora;" they said simply "mother," which she thought the sweetest name in the world.
With respect to the Talmud Tora schools, in which a knowledge of Hebrew language and its literature is exclusively taught, I beg leave to assert that there is not any school in the most distinguished Hebrew congregation in Europe that deserves to rank higher than those established in Warsaw and Wilna.
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