confound it! If you will not take it here, you can go to the devil. Go
and get a cup, and make haste about it."

So she went and fetched a cup, sat down again, tasted the black liquor
and made faces over it, but swallowed it to the last drop, under her
master's furious looks. Then he made her also drink her first glass of
brandy as an extra drop, the second as a livener and the third as a kick
behind, and then he told her to go and wash up her plates and dishes,
adding, that she was "a good sort of a girl."

It was the same at dinner, and then she had to play dominoes with him,
after which he sent her to bed, saying that he should come upstairs
soon. And she went to her room, a garret under the roof, and after
saying her prayers, she undressed and got into bed, but very soon she
sprung up in a fright, for a furious shout had shaken the house.
"Adelaide!" She opened her door, and replied from her attic: "Here I am,
master." "Where are you?" "In bed, of course, master." Then he roared
out: "Will you come downstairs, in heaven's name? I do not like to sleep
alone, and by G---- and if you object, you can just go at once."

Then in her terror, she replied from upstairs: "I will come, master," as
she looked for her candle, and he heard her small clogs pattering down
the stairs, and when she had got to the bottom steps, he seized her by
the arm, and as soon as she had left her light wooden shoes by the side
of her master's heavy boots, he pushed her into his room, growling out:
"Quicker than that, confound it!"

And she repeated continually, without knowing what she was saying: "Here
I am, here I am, master."