Joel gave incontestable proofs of an excellent appetite, and though Hulda eat almost nothing, the traveler proved a match for her brother.
"My exertions have given me a famous appetite," he remarked; "but I must admit that my attempt to traverse the Maristien was an act of the grossest folly.

To play the part of the unfortunate Eystein when one is old enough to be his father--and even his grandfather--is absurd in the highest degree." "So you know the legend ?" said Hulda.
"Of course.

My nurse used to sing me to sleep with it in the happy days when I still had a nurse.

Yes, I know the story, my brave girl, so I am all the more to blame for my imprudence.

Now, my friends, Dal seems a long way off to a cripple like myself.