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She'd a bit in reserve, a dainty morsel. Ho, 'twas a dangerous thing to talk of, but she dared it. "There's Barbro now," says she. "And how's it with her? Not run off and away, perhaps?" "Ay, she has," answers Brede carelessly. "And left a place for you for the winter by the same."
We get tourists into the country on the Swiss model, and earn money and pay off our debts. Ask this man if he would have been willing to do without all we have learned from Switzerland...." That evening Mrs. Brede asked, "Why did you make Mr. Hoey look so unreasonable today, Mrs. Molie?" "I?" said Mrs., Molie innocently. "Well, really !" As a matter of fact, it seemed as though Mrs.
When he came down to the farm some hours later, Brede was still there, but Geissler took no notice of his questions; Geissler was tired, and waved him aside. He slept like a stone till next morning early, then he rose with the sun, and was himself again. "Sellanraa," said he, standing outside and looking all round. "All that money," said Isak; "does it mean I'm to have it all?"
One day at the club I could not resist saying, 'You are an ass, La Bride, to ruin yourself worse than that, to ruin your sister, for the sake of a snail, as little sympathetic as Sarah, a girl who always has a cold in her head, and who has already deceived you. 'Deceived me! cried La Brede, waving his long arms.
But I've my father here." Brede makes himself pleasant, and goes on gossiping: "There's a fellow coming in day after tomorrow that's on his way to America." "Been home, d'you mean?" "Ay. He's from up in the village a bit. Been away for ever so many years, and home for the winter. His trunk's come down already by cart and a mighty fine trunk."
A little later I passed the woodshed and saw Mrs. Brede there, tying a fresh bandage on Solem's finger.... Poor lady! She was chaste, but young. The days have been oppressively warm for some time now, with the heat coming down in waves from the mountain and robbing us of all our strength.
'Tis a deal of money in the year, and good to reckon with as long as he's barely enough for his needs from the land, and little to sell. All sound and working well; all good reality. And little to fear from Brede about the telegraph line, seeing he's son-in-law to Brede now. Ay, things are looking well, looking grand with Axel now. And time goes on; winter is passed; spring comes again.
But that stock was a great investment; a rare chance for a purchaser with a few thousand dollars. Perhaps it was no more remarkable that Brede should not invest than that I should not and yet, it seemed to add one circumstance more to the other suspicious circumstances.
The mediaeval fireplates are still in their old place at the back of the vast hearth. I have little more to add to this story of my wanderings. From La Brede I went to Bordeaux, where I found much to admire that I had not noticed before.
On returning to his castle of La Brede after so many and such long travels, Montesquieu resolved to restore his tone by intercourse with the past.
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