Category: Novels

Magnhild; Dust

The landscape has high, bold mountains, above which are just passing the remnants of a storm. The valley is narrow and continually winding. Coursing through it is a turbulent stream, on one side of which there is a road. At some distance up the slopes farms are spread; the bui...

Chapters

10. CHAPTER X.

When she left her chamber after ten o'clock, the first object she beheld was Roennaug, who was coming up from the coast town, and was on her way to call on Magnhild--no, not on...

7. CHAPTER VII.

They were up-stairs in the afternoon, standing by the piano singing, when they heard Skarlie come home and go into the sitting-room below. Without making any remarks about this,...

3. CHAPTER III.

Late in the autumn all three girls were confirmed. This was such a matter of course to them all that their thoughts were chiefly busied with what they should wear on the day of...

6. CHAPTER VI.

Magnhild awoke the next day, not to joyous memories such as she had cherished every morning during the past few weeks. There was something to which she must now rise that terrif...

21. CHAPTER VII.

I left Skogstad at once, and without taking leave of the parents, who were with their children. I got a horse to the next station, and was soon slowly driving along the chaussee...

19. CHAPTER V.

I felt quite out of spirits, and determined to leave at once; but as I entered the sitting-room my hostess was seated on the large gothic settee or sofa, near the dining-room do...

13. CHAPTER XIII.

In the afternoon the mail from the Point arrived, bringing a letter for Magnhild. She was alarmed, and handed the letter to Roennaug, who soon returned it to her, with the infor...

12. CHAPTER XII.

The next morning Roennaug dreamed of singing; she still heard it when she awoke, and ere long she had so far collected herself as to consider whether it could really be Magnhild...

2. CHAPTER II.

The first time it was in the churchyard that blustering winter day her fourteen relatives were buried,--all whom she had loved, both parents and grandparents, and brothers and s...

5. CHAPTER V.

One morning as Magnhild, after making her toilet, went into the sitting-room, humming softly to herself and in joyous mood, to open the window facing the street, she saw a lady...

16. CHAPTER II.

The impressions of nature play their part in our anticipations of what we are about to meet. What was there so white and refined in the experience that awaited me here?

20. CHAPTER VI.

We reached the edge of the wood, and then our party divided, keeping at such a distance apart that we could see one another and everything between us; we walked the whole length...

11. CHAPTER XI.

Magnhild and Roennaug came arm in arm out of the wood where Roennaug had finally been obliged to seek her friend, where so many confidences had been made, so much discussed and...

4. CHAPTER IV.

The priest visited her three or four times a year; he slept in the room over the workshop usually occupied by Skarlie when he was at home. During the day the priest visited at t...

9. CHAPTER IX

About five years had elapsed when one Sunday evening in spring, a party of young girls passed up the one large street of the coast town. They were walking arm in arm, and their...

18. CHAPTER IV.

The door was thrown wide open, and Atlung came lounging in. This tall, slender man, in these capacious clothes that showed many a trace of the factories he had been visiting, bo...

17. CHAPTER III.

Fru[4] Atlung was evidently glad to see me. She had a singular walk; it seemed as though she never fully bent her knees; but with this peculiar gait she advanced hastily toward...

1. CHAPTER I.

The landscape has high, bold mountains, above which are just passing the remnants of a storm. The valley is narrow and continually winding. Coursing through it is a turbulent st...

15. CHAPTER I.

The drive from the town to Skogstad, the large gard belonging to the Atlung family, with its manufacturing establishment on the margin of the woodland stream, at the usual stead...

14. CHAPTER XIV.

They remained at the parsonage several days, for when it was announced that Magnhild was going with Roennaug to America the good people were so startled that it was thought best...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

While he was still in bed the next morning there was brought to Tande by the sailor's wife a letter. It had a dainty, old-fashioned, somewhat yellow, glazed envelope, and the ad...