Sometimes grandmother would say, A little louder if
you please,Victoria.
For a long while Niels stood and waited, trying to
calm the turmoilin his heart .
One night grandmother had smiled and said, What do
you think ofthe Bible, Victoria? Between them there stands the past; not as a
barrier now; as abond.
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plans and to work out the details.
Turn to the fourteenth chapter of Exodus,
grandmother would say.
Theystand and look, their feelings half joy half
sorrow . Please contact us beforehand to let us know your plans and to work out the
details. What he had seen, shook him like an invisible hand; it hit him likea hammer
blow at his heart. And Jane would raiseher voice so suddenly that Aunt Gertrude
would jump.
I was running just for the fun of it, explained
Jane.
Hadlost her as a guiding influence in his life, had
lost her as asister, a friend .
They did notlike it and made Jane feel that she
fitted in nowhere.
She thrilled with delightwhen she heard people
whisper, Isnt she lovely? The cattle-path forks: the girl follows one branch, the
mananother.
Those who did not like it need notstay
there.
He felt himself plunged back into unrest, chaos
They find a place in the grass, with a fallen tree
for a back-rest. Theysay old Mrs Kennedy is a terrible tyrant, but the younger
daughter. Jane was sure she had the most beautiful mother in the whole world. Yet I
knew it the moment you had left my yard. There is no hay-stack therenow: it is
spring, not autumn. She picked her knitting up, adjusted her glasses, and followed.
And they said she hadnt cared forher first husband at all. The wistful face of his
mother relaxed in a knowing smile: yes,such was she who had born him . His life, her
life: two vessels which he had shattered at a singleblow .
They have suffered; suffering has made them sweet,
not made thembitter.