Excerpt from Life

A few days before Easter, Tangen, the artist, met his friend Dr. Holth in the street, and stopped him with a wave of his hand.

"Why, you're the very person I was thinking about!" he said. "You're invited to General Bang's place in the mountains for Easter, and of course you'll accept with thanks."

Dr. Holth stood with a bundle of books under his arm. He was a man of about forty, square-built and broad, with a tired face and a dark moustache.

"To the mountains - I? Who's going to correct my hundreds of exercise-books and give lectures here, there and everywhere? Oh, no, my friend! A father of a family and schoolmaster can't do quite what a famous artist would do!" He would have passed on, but the other put his hand through his arm and went on with him.

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