Pelle the Conqueror — Complete

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Martin Andersen Nexø. Pelle the Conqueror — Complete

Pelle the Conqueror — Complete

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PELLE THE CONQUEROR

I. BOYHOOD

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II. APPRENTICESHIP

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III. THE GREAT STRUGGLE

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IV. DAYBREAK

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Отрывок из книги

Martin Andersen Nexø

Published by Good Press, 2019

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During the afternoon it was quiet on the farm. Most of the men were out somewhere, either at the inn or with the quarry-men at the stone-quarry. The master and mistress were out too; the farmer had ordered the carriage directly after dinner and had driven to the town, and half an hour later his wife set off in the pony-carriage—to keep an eye on him, people said.

Old Lasse was sitting in an empty cow-stall, mending Pelle’s clothes, while the boy played up and down the foddering passage. He had found in the herdsman’s room an old boot-jack, which he placed under his knee, pretending it was a wooden leg, and all the time he was chattering happily, but not quite so loudly as usual, to his father. The morning’s experience was still fresh in his mind, and had a subduing effect; it was as if he had performed some great deed, and was now nervous about it. There was another circumstance, too, that helped to make him serious. The bailiff had been over to say that the animals were to go out the next day. Pelle was to mind the young cattle, so this would be his last free day, perhaps for the whole summer.

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