He is nothing particular to look at." "Kaetheli, do you know what ?" Sally said, "you go home with me.

I want to ask whether I may go home with you for a little while.

I should like to see that too, and then afterwards we will both go to old Marianne's to call, will you ?" Kaetheli was ready at once to carry out the plan, and the children ran together toward the parsonage.
It was only a little while before, that Edi and Ritz had arrived home panting for breath.

In the garden on the bench under the large apple-tree, Mother and Auntie were sitting mending and conversing over the bringing-up of the children; for Auntie knew many a good advice, quite new and not worn out.

Now they heard hasty running, and Edi and Ritz came rushing along.
"May we--in the Middle Lot--to the Middle Lot--people have arrived--a wagon and a piano--a terribly rich woman and a--" Both shouted in confusion, breathlessly and incomprehensibly.
"Now," the aunt cried into the noise, "if you behave like two canary birds who suddenly have become crazy, no human being can understand a word.