A BUNDLE OF LIFE
“Not that I know of, Jos Gernos. But do he marry from Gernos, for Nansi here has not time to see to these things.”
After they had spoken about this which was going to happen, and Jos had gone his way, Nansi said these words in praise of Jos.
“Old Jos is very tidy.”
Silas clothed himself and went to the house of Bertha Daviss, and Bertha cut three carrots into small pieces and fried them for him, and also brewed tea for him. Silas seldom ate at home; had not Nansi and Leisa and his manservant Dewi enough to do with the care of ten cows and ten pigs and three horses without wasting time in the preparation of food? Thus he journeyed from cottage to cottage, at each cottage eating fried carrots and drinking tea. That was the period when his riches made him a power in the land, and when housewives pandered to him because of his riches.
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