The things we do!

But surely there was no hurry--wouldn't it do tomorrow?
I was in a hurry--thank you. I had been there two days--what did that
come to?
She thought over it quite a while; at last she went out, and got her
husband to go with her and work it out together.
Seeing they stayed so long away, I went up to the loft, packed my sack all
ready, and carried it down into the passage. I proposed to be even more
offended, and start off now--that very night. It would be a good way of
taking leave, as things were.
When I came into the room again, Petter said:
"You don't mean to say you're starting out tonight?"
"Yes, I do."
"You've no call to heed the girls' nonsense, anyway."
"_Herregud_, let the old fellow go if he wants to," said his sister.
At last the deputy and his wife came in again, stiffly and stubbornly
silent.
Well! And how much did I owe them?
H'm! They would leave it to me.
They were all alike--a mean and crafty lot; I felt myself stifling, and
picking out the first note that came to hand I flung it at the woman.


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