Histrouble being nerves, the doctor had advised him
to live in thecountry. Nelson whispered slyly, nudging Niels with
hiselbow.
Had to have something to offset yourPercherons.
Niels sat in the dining room over a book.
She loved him; had loved him for seven years: so
what was there tofear?
Youll have to excuse me once more, he
mumbled.
What was the woman in the White Range Line House
doing meanwhile? When the time came, Niels went to town to get his wife. Well, she
nibbed you, didnt she, old hoss? Say,Lindstedt, Ive got a little bull, a
two-year-old thats a beauty. In silence Niels led the horses from the stable,
watered them, andhelped to hitch them up. Her eyes smiled at Bobby; and when Niels
came by,she picked her way over the soft, brown seed-bed.
There, a round extension table of fumed oak
occupiedthe centre, surrounded by six chairs.
Youll have to excuse me once more, he
mumbled.
He wassuddenly inclined to give her credit for the
fact that they werenot more so than formerly.
Never once did Niels look at her; but she followed
him with hereyes.
So you wouldnt have to leave me, not for anhour,
not for a minute! He wassuddenly inclined to give her credit for the fact that they
werenot more so than formerly.
In the kitchen he started the fire, sliced ham and
bread, and brokeeggs into a frying pan.
There was an air of immense embarrassment in the
room.
More and more Niels realised that the woman who had
become his wifewas a stranger to him . There was an air of immense embarrassment in
the room.
Two big hay-stacks in theyard, one, monstrously
large, in a slough east of the place. Distasteful though they were, he satisfied her
strange, ardent,erratic desires.