Still, if Ole Kamp had been there, the professor would probably have said to him: "Keep your ticket, my boy, keep it! First, your ticket, and then you, yourself, were saved from the wreck.

You had better wait and see what will come of it.

One never knows; no, one never knows!" And when Sylvius Hogg, professor of law, and; a member of the Storthing, felt in this way, one can hardly wonder at the infatuation of the public, nor that No.

9672 could be sold at an enormous premium.
So in Dame Hansen's household there was no one who protested against the young girl's decision--at least no one except the mother.
She was often heard to censure it, especially in Hulda's absence, a fact that caused poor Joel not a little mortification and chagrin, for he was very much afraid that she would not always confine herself to covert censure, and that she would urge Hulda to accept one of the offers she had received.
"Five thousand marks for the ticket!" she repeated again and again.
"They offer five thousand marks for it!" It was evident that Dame Hansen saw nothing either pathetic or commendable in her daughter's refusal.

She was thinking only of this large sum of five thousand marks.