FOOTNOTES:
[8] Crown-banco, equal to one shilling and sixpence English money.
[9] A shilling Swedish is equal to about one farthing English.
CHAPTER VII.
DISENTANGLING.
"There are certainly too many bitter almonds in this almond-mass; nothing tastes good to me this afternoon," said Elise, who set down a glass of almond-milk, and sighed—but not for the almond-milk.
"Be pleased with us, dear mother," whispered Eva, tenderly; "we are all friends again!"
The mother saw it in their beautiful beaming eyes; she read it in Louise's quiet glance as she turned round from the table, where she was helping Sara with her tunic, and looked at her mother. Elise nodded joyfully both to her and Eva, and drank to them the glass of almond-milk, which now appeared to have become suddenly sweet, so pleased did she look as she again set down the glass.
"Mamma, dear," said Gabriele, "we must certainly do something towards poor Petrea's toilet, otherwise she will not be presentable."