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15 June 1882 — Tynset | |
Thursday. 15th June [1882]. We were called at 6 & had tea in my room & then went & resumed our places in the train & on to Trondhjem. We got our food in the same primitive way as we did yesterday. When we were within a couple of hours of Throndhjem Mr James left the train having arrived at his fishing place on the Gula– As we were starting off there was a great talking & a Yankee who with his wife had come from Christiania in the train came up to our carriage & with the naselest twang possible shouted “If you don’t take your woman into your carriage we shall come into it.” I at once jumped up in astonishment & went to where Hill was & told her to come out without answering any one. It turned out that as soon as these Yankees found out that Hill was only a maid they were determined to get her out of the carriage they were in– They were jealous because we had a carriage to ourselves & wd not stand it. They were very uncivil to poor Hill & said they knew what she was as they had seen her wait on us when we got out to eat & they knew she wd not have waited on us if she did not belong to us. Such unkindness to an inferior (as they considered her) was a mark of illbreeding and one wd not have anything to say to such people. We got to Trondhjem abt 4 P.M. & were met at the station by the V. Consul Mr Kjeldsberg, Mr Mitchell having telegraphed to him. He took us to the Hotel & the Daniells went to the same place. We found that Mr Higford was also there having come out in the Tasso at the same time as Monty. I had a little tea & then we went to Kjeldsberg’s provision shop to order some things Monty wrote for us to bring to Syltebo. Took a walk in the town & met Mr Higford. Walked round the cathedral & churchyard. The latter is very well kept & there were fresh flowers on almost all the graves—put in little iron flower pots. Each family has their little plot of ground railed off & a bench put to rest on. We dined late with the Daniells, Mr Corrance and Mr Higford & sat & smoked & talked in the ladies room after dinner & retired early. | |
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