Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1902 Excerpt: ... VIII., this is your grandfather," the minister said. They looked at each other; standing an arm's length apart Hjalmar Truling raised his shrunken shoulders and measured the boy through the microscope of curiosity. He moved the glass from one place to another, straining his eyes. And of course he frowned. To him the introduction meant a purchase, the examination of an article partly paid for and now to be reclaimed. It was a bargain, he thought--it was a bargain, after all. Yet, there was something in the boy's face which, though it attracted him and made him pause, failed to please him. This was a knot in the tree, a clear, sharp negative to his dumb interrogation. It was dangerous, Hjalmar thought; this line, this color, as yet in its first stages, just out of the ground, might in the natural course of development grow into something inevitably hard for him to deal with. It would ripen and grow into seed which circumstances would scatter on good ground, and then He saw in the face of the boy a strength, not merely physical, but a power underneath, a force lying under the weight of muscles, the look of the eye. This was strength, indestructible, fearless, and lightly clad in the garments of youth. The frown on Hjalmar Truling's forehead deepened, his shoulders sank slowly as if Erik were standing on them. But his eyes, hard, piercing, continued to stare at the boy, though Hjalmar no longer saw Erik in the little low-lofted room. He saw his grandson on the seas among men, aye, with his own father, happy. He heard the boy cursing him, his grandfather. The sound of oaths, fiercely uttered, rang in his ear like rusty bells. His head shook as if it would leave his body. He had long ceased the examination, the analytical process, and the study of the boy. He was...
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