Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

Next day was fated to bring a great event. There came a visitor to the farm -- Geissler came. It was not yet summer on the moors, but Geissler paid no heed to the state of the ground; he came on foot, in rich high boots with broad, shiny tops; yellow gloves, too, he wore, and was elegant to see; a man from the village carried his things.

He had come, as a matter of fact, to buy a piece of Isak's land, up in the hills -- a copper mine. And what about the price? Also, by the way, he had a message from Inger -- good girl, everyone liked her; he had been in Trondhjem, and seen her. "Isak, you've put in some work here."