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make a few more sketches out there. I am planning a big
picture, you see — don’t you think it is a good subject, with all
the working people and the mule-carts in the excavation field?”
“Very good. I am sure you can make something of it. I
should like to show it to Gunnar and Ahlin. Oh, you are up!
Let me do your hair. What a mass of it you have, child. May
I do it in the new fashion? — with curls, you know.”
Francesca pulled her fingers through her friend’s long, fair hair.
“Sit quite still. There was a letter for you this morning. I
brought it up. Did you find it? It was from your little
brother, was it not?”
“Yes,” said Jenny.
“Was it nice? — were you pleased?”
“Yes, very nice. You know, Cesca, sometimes — only on
a Sunday morning once in a while — I wish I could fly home
and go for a stroll in Nordmarken with Kalfatrus. He is such
a brick, that boy.”
Francesca looked at Jenny’s smiling face in the glass. She
took down her hair and began to brush it again.
“No, Cesca; there is no time for it.”
“Oh yes. If they come too early they can go into my room.
It is in a terrible state — a regular pigsty — but never mind.
They won’t come so early — not Gunnar, and I don’t mind him
if he does, and not Ahlin either for that matter. He has
already been to see me this morning; I was in bed, and he sat
and talked. I sent him out on to the balcony while I dressed,
and then we went out and had a good meal at Tre Re. We
have been together the whole afternoon.”
Jenny said nothing.
“We saw Gram at Nazionale. Isn’t he awful? Have you
ever seen anything like it?”
“I don’t think he is bad at all. He is awkward, poor boy,
exactly as I was at first. He is one of those people who would
like to enjoy themselves, but don’t know how to.”
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