This young lady understood dress-making, and could play upon the flute; which, however, she never did without a certain bashfulness: besides this, she spoke well, especially upon melancholy events.

The bottle of wine only circulated at the upper end of the table; the shopman and aunt only drank ale, but it foamed gloriously: it had been made upon raisin-stalks.
"He is an excellent man, the merchant, whom you have received as guardian, Mr.Thostrup," said the master of the house.

"I am in connection with him." "But it is strange," interrupted the lady, "that only one out of his five daughters is engaged.

If the young ladies in Copenhagen do not go off better than that, what shall we say here ?" "Now Mr.Thostrup can take one of them," said the husband.

"There is money, and you have fortune also; if you get an office, you can live in floribus!" Maren colored, although there was no occasion for coloring; she even cast down her eyes.
"What should Mr.Thostrup do with one of them ?" pursued the wife.