They merely wanted to dance with the girl I had asked first." "Is it so dangerous, then?
What sort of a girl was she ?--I mean, what was her name ?" "Oh, one was called Marie, and the other was Anne--Herluf Andersen's daughter.

They were pretty girls, I can tell you.

Anne had a white brooch and earrings, and danced more smoothly than ever you saw a cutter sail.

Mate George said the same." The upshot of this conversation was, that she found out that the girls in Arendal, and in the ports generally where he had touched, were all well dressed; and the next time he returned from Holland, he promised he would bring with him a pair of morocco-leather shoes with silver buckles for her.
With this promise they parted, after she had allowed him--and that there might be no mistake, twice over--to take the accurate measure of her foot; and there were roses of joy in her cheeks, as she called after him to be sure and not forget them.
The year after Salve came with the shoes.

There were silver buckles in them, and they were very smart; but if they were, they had cost him more than half a month's pay.
Elizabeth was more carefully dressed now, and might almost be called grown up.