This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...her, down to her very feet. She saw him go away over the heather--away, away! Would he ever come again? How unkindly she had behaved! Ay, indeed, how brave, and clever, and nice, was everything she had seen in him! and how stupid and miserable was everything he had seen in her! Ay, from her crying out ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ...her, down to her very feet. She saw him go away over the heather--away, away! Would he ever come again? How unkindly she had behaved! Ay, indeed, how brave, and clever, and nice, was everything she had seen in him! and how stupid and miserable was everything he had seen in her! Ay, from her crying out at the dog, and the clumsy help "she gave in the bear-skinning, down to the dinner which she didnotget ready in time--everything was miserably stupid! And only to think that she could not answer him--no, not once--while he was looking at her; and then, even at the last, when he asked whether she sat every day under the mountain, that she did not say no; though she really did not sit there every day. Was not her silence, in fact, very much like bidding him come to see for himself? And all the rest of her stupid, miserable behaviour, would he not quite misunderstand that, too, in just the same way? Ah, how ashamed she was! A burning blush came all over her, especially on her face; and she sank yet lower and lower upon the earth; and, thus lying, she once more recalled the whole affair--all Hans' niceness and her own stupidity--and the more she thought the greater her shame grew. Even when the bells told that the cattle were coming back, she was still lying there; but she hastily rose to meet them. Beret, who now also returned, saw directly that something was amiss; for Mildrid asked such queer questions, and gave such crooked answers, and behaved altogether so very stupidly, that her sister several times stood still and stared at her in amaze. When suppertime came, Mildrid said she had lately been eating, and, instead of coming to the table, she sat outside the door; and if Beret had but then only had her ears bent forward, her...
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