I chased it out myself, and hid it so nicely under the wooden tub out in the shed.

If only it doesn't mew." She looked round again eagerly, while the elongated shadow across the snow imitated her slender figure and swaying movements.
"Oh, and they promised to wait for me!" "Well, I suppose they've only gone." "Only?
They thought I was going out with them this evening, and if they haven't been here already, they may perhaps stand and wait, for I must go in, you see, or else I shall have mother coming out into the street after me.

Listen, Nik! If you were nice "-- she took hold of his jacket, and pushed him backwards and forwards--"you would find them and tell them--can you tell them properly ?--that I must be good and stay at home this evening, but hurrah for a holiday to-morrow and the day after! Say that mother will be washing at the Antonisens' the whole of the end of the week, and they'll quite understand it.

But be sure you find them, Nikolai, so that they won't blame me." Nikolai was not insensible to her amiability, nor yet to her liveliness and prettiness; but it had just the opposite effect.

While she stood pulling his jacket, he heard the voices on the high-road all the time.
"That's it, that's it! You want to get quite free now, Silla.