But you see, Silla, it's beginning to get late, and--if you'd like to know--I've been invited to-day to be foreman at Mrs.Ellingsen's.

That'll be only ten dollars a month more!" "Foreman?
Is it true, Nikolai ?" She retreated from the wash-tub, looking doubtfully at him.

"Come here with your smutty face!" she said, hastily pulling the clothes out of the tub.

"You are so awfully black! Foreman, did you say?
No, is it really true?
Oh, you must put up with a little splashing; I can't see the foreman for coal-soot! Then Mrs.Ellingsen didn't ask Olaves first ?" "No, she didn't." "And no one put out their tongue or made Mrs.Ellingsen afraid of you, as they did before ?" "Oh, Haegberg must have let her know that he hadn't taken any harm from me." "If only they don't begin again and do what they can.

For your getting in front of them stings and chafes and torments every one of them, ever since that time when you had to do those wheel pivots over again for Olaves.