The things we do!

"Are you afraid?"
"Well, not properly afraid; no. But it gives you a creeping feeling now
and then to think of all the corpses lying there so near."
Happy man!
One day Harald showed me how to plant pine cones and little bushes. I'd no
idea of that sort of work before; we didn't learn it in the days when I
was at school. But now I'd seen the way of it, I went about planting
busily on Sundays; and, in return, I taught Harald one or two little
things that were new to him at his age, and got to be friends with him.


VIII

And all might have been well if it had not been for Frokenen, the daughter
of the house. I grew fonder of her every day. Her name was Elischeba,
Elisabeth. No remarkable beauty, perhaps; but she had red lips, and a
blue, girlish glance that made her pretty to see. Elischeba, Elisabeth--a
child at the first dawn of life, with eyes looking out upon the world. She
spoke one evening with young Erik from the neighbouring _gaard_, and
her eyes were full of sweetness and of something ripening.


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