The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas

Author:Tarjei Vesaas [Vesaas, Tarjei]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 978-0-914671-21-3
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2016-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

The girls moved off. Mattis stood swallowing. But he held his head up. Then he had to go and tie his old hulk to an iron hook.

The five or six people who were standing there didn’t ask any questions, something had taken hold of them. They were embarrassed somehow. One of them even said to Mattis: “They’re waving to you.”

Mattis straightened up quickly and waved back. The boat was rapidly growing smaller. The girls, too, were good at rowing, but of course it was easier now.

Then someone in the crowd plucked up courage: “Well, you’ve got yourself involved in something alright, Mattis.”

Mattis didn’t flinch.

“Yes, I have,” he said.

The boy came to life again: “Going to take them for any more trips?”

“Maybe,” Mattis replied calmly.

He believed it. No sooner had he said it than it was true. Why shouldn’t it happen again?

“We’ve been up to all sorts of things today,” he added, looking straight at the boy.

Someone laughed, but it wasn’t an unpleasant laugh. At least, it didn’t seem like that to Mattis. He’d finished here, and could walk away. The people on the pier were his friends, they’d been kind and hadn’t exposed him. He didn’t really walk, though, it was more as though he was being borne home to Hege on wings. On the way he kept an eye on the lake: the boat was growing smaller and smaller – and that was that.

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