[A Happy Boy by Bjornstjerne Bjornson]@TWC D-Link bookA Happy Boy CHAPTER XII 2/13
I lived at variance with a good friend, and wanted _him_ to come to _me_, and all the while I was unhappy.
At last I took it into my head to go to _him_, and since then all has been well with me." Ole looks up and says nothing. The school-master: "How do you think the gard is doing, Ole ?" "Failing, like myself." "Who shall have it when you are gone ?" "That is what I do not know, and it is that, too, which troubles me." "Your neighbors are doing well now, Ole." "Yes, they have that agriculturist to help them." The school-master turned unconcernedly toward the window: "You should have help,--you, too, Ole.
You cannot walk much, and you know very little of the new ways of management." Ole: "I do not suppose there is any one who would help me." "Have you asked for it ?" Ole is silent. The school-master: "I myself dealt just so with the Lord for a long time.
'You are not kind to me,' I said to Him.
'Have you prayed me to be so ?' asked He.
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