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II: Part 1, Chapter 5

"She knew that she wouldn't tell him about her trouble; there would be time enough for that when he realized it himself. A good-humored tenderness coursed through her heart, over the hard little anger that lay at the bottom, like a glittering river over stones." I'll have to look at the Norwegian for this passage: Undset's descriptions of Kristen's interior life are so evocative, elegant, naturalistic.

II: The Wife
Part 1 - The Fruit of Sin