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(1852) [MARC] Author: Emilie Flygare-Carlén Translator: Alex L. Krause
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190 T#E SKJUTS-BOY.
his commission before he allowed the money to go out of his
possession. .
"2klas! what a bother such rnoney rentiers are," sighed
Amelia to herself. "If I gct through this safely I shall never
meddle with it again, except with the butter and egg money."
3Ir. ]3roger, however, ruade a fi#vourable proposal, fo which
Amêlia agreed with pleasure. It was fo make a little note of
security that was to be paid ai the redemption of the pledged
articles. _A_anclia now parted with ber treasures, and saw one
afl#er another glide into a leathern bag, which the old man drêw
forth from a concealed cavity in the floor. She felt the most
pain ai the loss of the chain which ber mother had given her–
she also had other thoughts about it–-but for such contempla-
tions it was now too laie.
A_melia took leave of ber new acqua#tance, and after she had
deposited her money in tha# place where it is said that ladies
like fo preserve their love-letters, in the absence of which
Amelia thought it would be a safer place of concealment thaa
in ber work-bag, she went ber way toward the parsonage, which
was nearer ai hand than Tunefors, and alTived there just as the
family were seating themselves ai the supper-table, where they
offercd a place fo Amelia by the side of ber friend #l:ina.
3Iina, the daughter of the minister, and the betrothed of his
assistant, Lamm, was a clever girl, and well versed in all do-
mestic affairs: in the preparation of cheese she especially ex-
celled, for which reason ber mother always had prophesied that
she would become the wife of a deacon.
Amelia was very much attached, to the good and lively Mina,
fo whom she was h#debted for ber knowledge of many domestic
rentiers; but a real, confidential friendship did hot exist between
the two girls. Not that Amelia drew a distinction between the
daughter of the Lieutenant-colonel and Chamberlain De Dressen
and #he pastor Wickmann’s daughter–no; but because Amelia
had, in sl#ite of ber plaîa appearance, a finer judgment, more

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