The Novels of Bjornstjerne Bjornson Author:Bjornstjerne Bjornson Volume: 10 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: W. Heinemann Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing tex... more »t. 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 books for free. Excerpt: VI The porter was the first who had to pay for it. He was dismissed that same day. Then Kallem went down to Andersen's widow. " You are a very clever, capable woman. If you like you shall have the place as porter and steward at the hospital. Accept it and begin at once to-morrow to pack up and move in with the children, you will have less time to think about your sorrow. Have you a good servant-girl ?" "Yes." " Take her with you. More will not be necessary. Everything else is ready, and the deaconesses will help you." The upper deaconess got a sound rating ; but nothing further. She was to atone for her mistake by doing all that lay in her power to help mother Andersen. He made no effort to see the minister, nor the minister to see him. He heard from others that he had been ill, which he thought likely enough. A few days later Kallem met Josephine in the street; she pretended not to see him. The effect produced by this incident is not easily described. The whole town was in a tumult. There must be something peculiar about belief altogether, when belief in a lie could save a man from certain death. Of course the porter and his large family came down upon the minister and his wife like a heavy beam. Josephine had to provide money for starting them in a bookseller's shop, much more money than she wished to part with. From that time Kallem had a true and faithful enemy in that man. Directly after all this Kallem travelled up to the wood dis...« less