[One of Life’s Slaves by Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie]@TWC D-Link bookOne of Life’s Slaves CHAPTER IX 4/13
So she had dropped the cup with all five leeches in it, and if it had not been moonlight so that she could see to pick them up again on the snow, she would have lost every single one.
It was that Josefa and Gunda and Kalla down the street, and that long Silla--she came along like a ghost.
Ah, Mrs.Holman, who is so particular, should see what sort of a daughter she has, when it gets dark. Barbara nodded to herself, and thought that Nikolai should just hear what people said. "I must really go out and look at them one evening, yes indeed.
Well, that about the leeches I disapprove of entirely and altogether, I must confess.
But young blood must have movement in some way, and may I ask,"-- here Mother Baekken laid one fore-finger upon the other--"have they any way of amusing themselves, if they must _not_ dance, and _not_ slide, and _not_ toboggan ?" But now Mother Taraldsen grew angry. "If it's proper for respectable young girls to tear about and make a row, it must be the new fashion that Mother Baekken's preaching about.
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