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Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian by Unknown
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"How pretty and cosy this room really is!" said Miss Brandt,
looking around. "In a situation like this one can surely live in
the country summer and winter. Out with us at Taarback it blows in
through the windows, doors, and very walls."

"That must be bad in a whirlwind."

"Yes--yes: still, it might be quite amusing when the whirlwind
carried such billets: not that one would care for them; yet they
might be interesting for a while."

"Oh, yes! perhaps."

"Yes: how do you think a young girl would like it, when there came
from Heaven a billet, in which one pledged himself to her for time
and eternity?"

"That isn't easy to say; but I don't believe the occurrence quite
so uncommon. A friend of mine once had such a billet blown to her,
and she presented me with it."

"Does one give such things away? Have you the billet?"

"I will look for it," answered Miss Hjelm; and surely enough,
after longer search in the sewing-table, in drawers, and small
boxes, than was really necessary, she found it. Miss Brandt read
it, taking care not to remark that it very much appeared to her as
if it resembled the one the counsellor had mentioned.

"And such a billet one gives away!" she said after a pause.
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