"Charles the Thirteenth," replied he, and listened to Louise's answer to the Landed-proprietor.
"Cousin Louise, are you fond of birds?" asked the Landed-proprietor.
"Oh, yes, particularly of fieldfares," answered Louise.
"Nay, that's capital!" said the Landed-proprietor. "There are innumerable fieldfares on my estate of Oestanvik. I often go out myself with my gun and shoot them for my dinner; piff-paff! with two shots I have killed a whole dishful!"
"Don't you imagine, Master Jacobi, that the people before the Flood were much wickeder than those of our time?" asked Petrea, who wished to occupy the Candidate, nothing deterred by his evident abstraction, and whom nobody had asked if she liked fieldfares.
"Oh, much—much better," answered Jacobi.
"Cousin Louise, are you fond of roast hare?" asked the Landed-proprietor.
"Master Jacobi, are you fond of roast hare?" whispered Petrea, waggishly, to the Candidate.
"Bravo, Petrea!" whispered her brother to her.
"Cousin Louise, are you fond of cold meat?" asked the Landed-proprietor, as he handed Louise to the supper-table.