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Gritli’s Children

CHAPTER VII
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It is a gift.

But do not run in debt again.
Another time I might not be able to help you.

We shall all be glad to see you at home again." In her letter to Oscar, aunty wrote that he deserved a much worse punishment than he had received, for his wilful misinterpretation of his father's warning, obeying the letter, rather than the spirit, and for his obstinacy about the motto.

The letter then continued:-- "No notice from the police nor from the court of justice has been sent to your father; but a complaint has been lodged against you from another quarter.

Only three days after he went from home, Feklitus came back again, without bag or baggage, as if he had fled for his life.


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