Nils took up a brown flask. It's some French brandy father gave me when I was married. I'll get glasses. When she brought them, Nils took them from her and put them down on the window-sill. Clara shrugged her shoulders.
Boys are always crazy about somebody or another.
I dare say some silly has been crazy about Evelina Oleson. You got over it in a hurry. I had to get on, you know, and it was hard sledding at first. And then I began to think about you more than I had since I first went away. I began to wonder if you were really as you had seemed to me when I was a boy.