Bastian.

Of course; everything runs in families here.

Heire.

Including the social graces——I say no more. The conversion of the currency, rash speculations, extravagances he launched out into, in the year 1816 or thereabouts, forced him to sell some of his land.

Stensgård.

And your father bought it?

Heire.

Bought and paid for it. Well, what then? I come into my property; I make improvements by the thousand——

Bastian.

Of course.