Quote from "What Old Johanne Told" (1872)
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The doctor wrote a prescription for him to have filled at the pharmacy. He would not take the medicine. "What good will it do?" he said.
"You will get well again then," said his mother. "Have faith in yourself and in our Lord! If I could only see you get flesh on your body again, hear you whistle and sing; for that I would willingly lay down my life."
And Rasmus was cured of his illness, but his mother contracted it. Our Lord summoned her, and not him.
(...)One autumn evening he was staggering through rain and wind along the muddy road from the tavern to his house; his mother had long since gone and been laid in her grave.
(...)"What good will it do?" he said.
"That is an awful saying that you have," said she. "Remember your mother's words, 'Have faith in yourself and in our Lord.'
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Keywords: Man, woman, mother, son, death
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