Karen was a rather sad-looking woman, about twenty-nine years old; shehad lost a lover in Norway long since, and in her heart she frettedand mourned for this continually: she could not speak a word ofEnglish at first, but went patiently about her work and soon learnedenough, and proved herself an excellent servant, doing faithfully andthoroughly everything she undertook, as is the way of her peoplegenerally. Her personal neatness was most attractive. She wore gownsmade of cloth woven by herself in Norway, a coarse blue stuff, alwaysneat and clean, and often I used to watch her as she sat by the firespinning at a spinning-wheel brought from her own country; she [Pg 139]madesuch a pretty picture, with her blue gown and fresh white apron, andthe nice, clear white muslin bow with which she was in the habit offastening her linen collar, that she was very agreeable to look upon.She had a pensive way of letting her head droop a little sideways asshe spun, and while the low wheel hummed monotonously, she would sitcrooning sweet, sad old Norwegian airs by the hour together, perfectlyunconscious that she was affording such pleasure to a pair ofappreciative eyes. On the 12th of October, 1872, in the second year ofher stay with us, her brother, Ivan Christensen, and his wife, AnetheMathea, came over from their Norseland in an evil day, and joinedMaren and John at their island, living in the same house with them.
It was a marvellous specimen of the most exquisite Venetianworkmanship. A pair of green serpents with eyes that glowed like firewrithed around the [Pg 182]golden stem of a blood-red bowl, and as the whitelight of the cloudless sky fell on it from the broad window, it burnedin the glory of the sunshine and seemed to fill itself full of somemysterious and royal wine. Shylock revolved it slowly in his hand toshow the strange waviness of its texture, and as it turned, theserpents clung more closely to the stem and arched their heads andshot a glance of hate at the strangers who came to gaze on them withcurious fascination.
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