The Home in the Valley

t Disapp

use. She had walked fast, and her face was crimson with heat and vexation. When Magde first saw the young girl, she drew her bonnet close

are you

ttle walk," r

Magde seriously, "you wi

you so?" replied Nanna, as

o preserve their fair fame, are not

did yo

ers, are made only for the rich, who can admire th

Magde, you

you do not know the insults to which w

t we should thus be

deformed and ugly as those sins, which even our mo

removed it, and from the expression of her dark eyes, which beamed with her accustomed cheerfulness, and

imagine you to be more than a dove which is still fostered within the doveco

ause, then?" i

r is not a cause, and ther

urther on the subject," said Nanna quickly, for sh

ce whether it was really so danger

ty ever been insulted. On any other occasion, Nanna would have been influenced not only by curiosity, but by a far purer feeling, namely, sympathy f

was

ed over the

time, for the moment that Magde turned to pass in

will invigorate my old body; but it would be better I think, if my rheumatism will permit it, to take a little stro

burning her cheeks, as she advanced the opinio

ther. I will take your advice. Bring my arm-chair out,

n this occasion, she not only went after the chair reluctantly, but also, when she as usual seated herself with her knitting work on her little bench at his s

ble appearance to his benevolent features, "are you thinking of th

dear father,"

t resemble Magde's. She is pleased, as every young woman should be, when

fused, "I shall also cultivate a taste for such thi

en I have observed your indifference to dress, so unnatural to one of your age; bu

to strive to make ourselves beauti

he old man, "what put th

ought to be born ugly, that their

at, and she who wishes to please her husband so mu

n is married, it alte

r the sake of her father, her brother, and above all for her o

t not innocent?"

ges the heart, and the girl neglects her duties, and gives her sole attention to that which s

There is no danger of that," thought she,

ather, "you must wear that elegant silk s

r meaning passed over her lips. It was the smi

when Ragnar's packages arrive, we shall be in better circumstances. Poverty has many blessings of which the rich man cannot even dream. The poor man's gratitud

moved in her seat uneasily, and dropped stitch after stitch of her k

afraid to do so? She asked herself the question; the only reply she could make was, that yesterday it would have b

on!" said her father, "wer

of the house before,

; take all the enjoyment you c

endered within the mind of the young girl, causing her to fancy that something was wanting to comp

iliar conversation with his daughter, whom he loved above all earthly things, for she reminded

be, Nanna would be compelled to be content with her lot, should she wed an honest mechanic or a sloop c

er in the meadow, and now she suddenly remembered that she had said nothing to her father or Magde about the stranger whom she had encountered the previous evening. How strange it was that she had forgotten to tell them! Ye