The Heart of the Northern Sea. -; Translated From the Fifth Norwegian Edition [of Gunvor Thorsdotter Till Härö]

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1907 Original Publisher: G. Allen Subjects: Norwegian fiction Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / Scandinavian Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER 111 MIDSUMMER NIGHT It was a day in June. Svein Torgersen had announced that he was coming, and Anders Halskar had gone off with the twelve-oared boat to fetch him at the nearest stopping- place of the steamer. They were expected to arrive at midnight. Everything was ready. The old dower-house near the road was resplendent with fresh paint, and its windows shone in the sunlight. Aunt Vikka had been down once again to see that nothing was missing; the consulting- room was adorned with greenery, and in the sitting-room she had put her white rose. Gunvor was not at home that day. She was at the big mission meeting at the parish church. A large number of people had gathered there from the places around, and the clergy and godly laymen ministered to their spiritual needs. But when the services and the meetings were over, she managed to gather some of the wives around her down in the parish public room. There she began to impressupon them the fact that cleanliness is next to godliness, and helpful in the strengthening of their souls, and that they should not shut out God's fresh air from their houses, for with light and air and sunshine came regenerative power. This appeal was addressed specially to the women, but the men came in too and listened -- people were standing tightly packed in the doorway. For it was characteristic of Gunvor of Haero that when she talked on any subject -- even if she dealt only with the question of washing oneself -- she did it in so convincing a...