With what frightful words you terrified me just now.

It is true I gave you just cause to be angry with me; but now you are kind again--do you hear ?--and will bring your mother again to see mine.

Not a word.

I shall see, whether cousin Paaker refuses me obedience." She threatened him playfully with her finger, and then growing grave she added, with a look that pierced Paaker's heart with pain, and yet with ecstasy, "Let us leave off quarrelling.

It is so much better when people are kind to each other." After these words she walked towards the house of the paraschites, while Paaker pressed his hands to his breast, and murmured: "The drink is working, and she will be mine.