Not unfrequently they went half-way to meet the postman.

Everybody was deeply interested, for the Hansen family was exceedingly popular in the neighborhood; and poor Ole was almost a child of the Telemark.

But no letter came from Bergen or Christiania giving news of the absent one.
Nothing new occurred on the sixteenth.

Sylvius Hogg could scarcely restrain his restlessness.

He began to understand that he must proceed to act in person, so he announced to his friends that if no news was received on the following day he should go to Christiania and satisfy himself that nothing had been left undone.