Stories by Foreign Authors

ot themselves experienced something similar, or have not a fancy for putting themselves in his place, will say, perhaps, that they could have ma

se by the farm, and obtained admittance to the house, which last was not so difficult, since Mrs. Hjelm was a fr

te to his colleagues in the Superior Court, that one could only value an autumn in Nature's lap after so laborious and he

Mrs. Emmy Lund's on Tuesday, two o'cloc

so far," said Bagger to himself, and waited for the Tuesday with comparative eas

l towards twelve o'clock, calculating that two hours was the least she needed in which to dress and drive to town. The long hand threatened to touch the short hand at the number twelve, without any appearance of Ingeborg's noticing it. Sh

now I am Superior

aid almost with dread, and arose

now," he said, surprised that the title o

ld her hand upon her heart. "Why do yo

n that you may understand that

that inclination, which she under other circumstances would have had, quickly to break off the conversation and go away. It is possible, also, that his situation as Superior Cou

then anybody who has accused

at the moment the clock struck twelve I thought that yo

k twelve now, at no

t a litt

an you satisfy my curi

s to me impossible for a lady to make her toile

sellor; but neither do I inte

at reason that

inly rid you of the idea of witchcraft, you can s

o'c

nsellor can, if he please, lay that

which I would rather offer the

usin and me that you would read to us about popular scien

nnot fly: my carriage stan

an agreeable journe

derstand why I shall

ows his own c

true. But I at lea

swer to this, and the

ewhat puzzled, "take the great liberty t

that I did not intend to go to town

is own ideas, "and so I thought, als

words so very wide of what she regarded as reasonable, began to suspect his mi

n which he had carried on for the sake of involving Miss Hjelm in self-contradic

e have pity on me, and tell me if you expe

Mrs. Lund's!" exc

then, who have w

ed Ingeborg, and almost tore away

s-! My dear madam, you must fo

oric and logic, but on the contrary in a way which certainly show

der the counsellor's restless eloquence. At last he came to the point; while his words were of whirlwind and letters, his tone and eye spoke, unconsciously to him, a true, honest,

ithdrawing the hand that Bagger had seized. "The proper meaning of what y

n't the prop

hen you stand at the altar with one, a

ent away in the air! In law it has no validity at all, and moral

g painful in not being faithful to one's youth and its pro

te. I confess that there is something ... something I would wi

. It would not do to have a husband with so much fancy as Bagger, always having something unknown, fairy-like, lying out upon the horizon, holding claim upon him from his you

e your letter, your obligation

: "it is true enough I ought; but where shall I

he same mai

hi

letter to its destination, also take care o

that I am not young any more or have not received another youth. I have not

s witch to-day. Write, and I will take

mise involved in this that you will take care of my

Since I woo Miss Hjel

org, the Lord's blessing upon yo

d me my billet bac

eakably loved Ingeborg! How poor lan

m. I give you my word of honor, that I neither know who yo

uly give. I am

d the witc

the same paper with me, in a lett

have the letter sent to th

e last letter reads: 'Take

ill," said

Brandt, I, too, ask yo

you to write upon it: '

ties that the fun does

n of mail, receive