Said Froken Elisabeth:
"Oh, I think it's just lovely to have meals out of doors. Don't you?"
And here she said _De_, instead of _Du_, as she had said before.
"It's not so new to him, you know," said Fruen; "he has his dinner out in
the woods every day."
Eh, but that voice of hers, and her eyes, and the womanly, tender look of
the hand that held the glass towards me.... I might have said something in
turn--have told them this or that of strange things from out in the wide
world, for their amusement; I could have set those ladies right when they
chattered on, all ignorant of the way of riding camels or of harvest in
the vineyards....
I made haste to finish my meal, and moved away. I took the buckets and
went down for more water for the horses, though there was no need. I sat
down by the stream and stayed there.
After a little while Fruen called:
"You must come and stand by the horses; we are going off to see if we can
find some wild hops or something nice."
But when I came up they decided that the wild hops were over, and there
were no rowan berries left now, nor any richly coloured leaves.
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