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and clouds, which brought about a change in the weather,
and to reckon time and distance by the sun. He made her
familiar with animals and plants — root and stalk, leaf and
bud, blossom and fruit. Her sketch-book and his camera were
always in their knapsack.
All the kindness and devotion her stepfather had put into this
work of education she appreciated now for the first time — for
he was a well-known ski-runner and mountaineer in the
Jotunheim and Nordlandstinderne.
He had promised to take her there too. The summer when
she was fifteen, she went with him grouse-shooting. Her mother
could not go with them: she was expecting the little brother by
that time.
They stayed in a solitary mountain saeter below Rondane.
She had never been so happy in all her life as when she awoke
in her tiny bunk. She hurried out to make coffee for her
stepfather, and he took her to the Ronde peaks, into the Styg
mountains, and on fishing tours; and they went down together to the
valley for provisions. When he was out shooting, she bathed
in the cold mountain brooks and went for endless walks on the
moors; or sat in the porch knitting and dreaming, weaving
romances about a fair saeter maiden and a huntsman, who was
very like Berner, but young and handsome, and who could tell
about hunting and mountaineering like Berner used to do in
the evening by the fire. And he should promise to give her a
gun and take her up to unknown mountain-tops.
She remembered how tormented, ashamed, and unhappy she
was when she knew that her mother was going to have a baby.
She tried to hide her thoughts from her mother, but she knew
she only partly succeeded. Berner’s anxiety about his wife
as the time drew near brought a change in her feelings. He
spoke to her about it: “I am so afraid, Jenny, because I love
your mother so dearly,” and he told her that when she herself
was born her mother was very ill. The belief that her mother’s
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