The things we do!

When Petter came
home the entire family set to work reckoning out whether he had gotten his
full pay, and if he had lain sick at Ovrebo for the full time allowed him
by law, or "provided by statute," as his father, the deputy, put it.
Yesterday, when I happened to break a window--a little pane that cost next
to nothing--there was no end of whispering about it, and unfriendly
glances at me from all sides; so today I went up to the store and bought a
new pane, and fixed it in properly with putty. Then said the deputy: "You
needn't have taken all that trouble over a pane of glass."
To tell the truth, it was not only for that I had been up to the store; I
also bought a couple of bottles of wine, to show I did not care so much
for the price of a pane of glass or so. Also, I bought a sewing-machine,
to give the girls when I went away. We could drink the wine this evening;
tomorrow would be Sunday, and we should all have time to lie abed. But on
Monday morning I would start off again.
Things turned out otherwise, however.


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