He has often dined with me in Christiania.

Ah, well, my children, I can soon learn through him all that can be ascertained about the 'Viking.' I'll write him this very day, and if need be I'll go and see him." "How kind you are, Mister Sylvius!" cried Hulda and Joel in the same breath.
"No thanks, if you please; I won't allow them.

Did I ever thank you for what you did for me up there?
And now I find an opportunity to do you a good turn, and here you are all in a flutter." "But you were just talking of returning to Christiania," remarked Joel.
"Well, I shall go to Bergen instead, if I find it necessary to go to Bergen." "But you were about to leave us, Mister Sylvius," said Hulda.
"Well, I have changed my mind, that is all.

I am master of my own actions, I suppose; and I sha'n't go until I see you safely out of this trouble, that is, unless you are disposed to turn me out-of-doors--" "What can you be thinking of, Mister Sylvius ?" "I have decided to remain in Dal until Ole's return.

I want to make the acquaintance of my little Hulda's betrothed.