Then one divides these things into separate parts and finishes part first with the resolution to do another part the next day, and so on till it is done.

We shall say now our song has twelve stanzas and we'll sing two of them every morning; in that way we can finish it on the sixth day and we have not left it unfinished at all.

Can you understand, Lippo?
Are you quiet now ?" "Yes," said the little boy, looking up to his mother with an expression of perfect satisfaction.
The leave-taking from the uncle had to be cut extremely short.

"Come soon again," sounded three times more from the steps, and then the children started off.
The mother, looking through the window, followed them with her eyes.

She was afraid that Kurt and Mea would leave the little one far behind on account of having been kept too long already, and it happened as she feared.