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The Danes Sketched by Themselves, Stories by the Best Danish Authors, Tr. by Mrs. Bushby
The Danes Sketched by Themselves Stories by the Best Danish Authors Tr by Mrs Bushby Author:Danes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: 147 THE DOOMED HOUSE. BY B. S. INGEMANN. ' The house near Christianshavn's canal is again for sale -- your worthy uncle's house, Johanna! and now upon very reasonable terms,' said the young joiner and cabinet-maker, Frants, one morning to his pretty wife, as he laid the advertisement sheet of the newspaper upon the cradle, and glanced at his little boy, an infant of about three months old, who was sleeping sweetly, and seemed to be sporting with heavenly cherubs in his innocent dreams. ' Let us on no account think of the dear old house,' replied his wife, taking up the newspaper and placing it on the table, without even looking at the advertisement. ' We have a roof over our heads as long as Mr. Stork will have patience about the rent. If we have bread enough for ourselves, and for yon little angel, who will soon begin to want some, we may well rest contented. Notwithstanding our poverty, we are, perhaps, the happiest married couple in thewhole town,' she added gently, and with an affectionate smile,' and we ought to thank our God that he did not let the wide world separate us from each other, but permitted you to return from your distant journey, healthy and cheerful, and that he has granted us love and strength to bear our little cross with patience.' 'You are ever the same amiable and pioua Johanna,' said Frants, embracing the lovely young mother, who reminded him of an exquisite picture of the Madonna he had seen abroad, ' and you have made me better and more patient than I was, either by nature or by habit. But I really cannot remain longer in this miserable garret -- I have neither room nor ...« less