They were generally to be found together on these Sunday afternoons at Sandsgaard.

The opportunity for talking scandal was one not to be neglected.
Hiorth's family had been for a long time in the service of the State, a fact of which he was not a little proud; and after his daughter's marriage with Morten Garman, who was one of the most eligible young men of the district, his somewhat sensitive feelings began to revolt against the self-satisfaction which the Garman family seemed to have inherited with their solid prosperity.
Aalbom was, therefore, not afraid to give free play to his bitter tongue, and after a good dinner he was just in the vein for so doing.
"They are asleep," said he.

"I dare bet they are both of them fast asleep.

Have you not noticed that both the Consul and his brother disappear after dinner every Sunday ?" "Yes, I have remarked that I don't generally see them when the coffee comes; but it is only for about a quarter of an hour," answered the magistrate, as he brushed some cigar-ash off his coat, just where his new North Star Order hung.
"They are not treating you properly," continued Aalbom; "especially when Richard calls himself an _attache_, and has some pretensions to good manners." "Oh! well, as far as he is concerned," answered the other, "he means to show his contempt for people in office.

Richard Garman, like all people who have led shady lives, is an ultra-Radical." "No doubt, sir.