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Thyra's home was very plain and simple. Up there, in the far-away North, they are all simple folk, honest, hardy, strong of heart and strong of hand.
The dismal little street of Vardo consisted of two rows of low, wood-built, inartistic houses, mostly without an upper floor, the majority being roofed with peat, upon which grew a varied assortment of the Arctic mosses. One or two of the houses were tiled, and one of these-one somewhat superior to the others, inasmuch as it possessed an upper storey, where curtains showed at the big, ugly square windows-was occupied by old Captain Berentsen.