Sivert

Isak made no objection to his being called Sivert, though he himself would rather have preferred Jacob.

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“I’ll come on after,” calls Sivert, and sets down his load.

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Oline — maybe old Sivert had for a moment thought of her as young, pretty, and rosy-cheeked, but now she is old, deformed, a picture of decay; she ought to have been dead.

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Sivert got up in the middle of the night to see how things were going, and found his father out already on the same errand.

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All this seemed to mean that Uncle Sivert had not long to live, and Inger insisted that little Sivert should set off at once.

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Sivert offered to stake twenty Kroner in notes against the gold piece, and do all the digging himself into the bargain if he won; but Andresen took offence at that.

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No, Sivert was no hand at reeling off a lot of talk; he was a fieldworker, sure of what he said, and speaking calmly when he spoke at all.

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Eleseus and Sivert were fast asleep in the little chamber, undisturbed by all the noise outside; little Leopoldine was up, looking on wonderingly at her mother as she danced.

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Eleseus could walk already, walk by himself wherever he pleased, and little Sivert was christened.

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He shared the small bedroom with Sivert; the two brothers got on well together, and were constantly playing tricks on each other by way of amusement.

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