` You will have to make me your wife , ' she said at last , ` for you have drawn my blood , and I belong to you . ' ` Why not ? I am quite willing , ' answered he . ` But how do you suppose we can manage to live till summer comes round again ? ' ` Do not be anxious about that , ' said the girl ; ` if you will only marry me all will be well . I am very rich , and all my family are rich also . ' Then the young man gave her his promise to make her his wife , and the girl fulfilled her part of the bargain , and food was plentiful on the island all through the long winter months , though he never knew how it got there . And by-and-by it was spring once more , and time for the fisher-folk to sail from the mainland . ` Where are we to go now ? ' asked the girl , one day , when the sun seemed brighter and the wind softer than usual . ' I do not care where I go , ' answered the young man ; ` what do you think ? ' The girl replied that she would like to go somewhere right at the other end of the island , and build a house , far away from the huts of the fishing-folk . And he consented , and that very day they set off in search of a sheltered spot on the banks of a stream , so that it would be easy to get water . In a tiny bay , on the opposite side of the island they found the very thing , which seemed to have been made on purpose for them ; and as they were tired with their long walk , they laid themselves down on a bank of moss among some birches and prepared to have a good night 's rest , so as to be fresh for work next day . But before she went to sleep the girl turned to her husband , and said : ` If in your dreams you fancy that you hear strange noises , be sure you do not stir , or get up to see what it is . ' ` Oh , it is not likely we shall hear any noises in such a quiet place , ' answered he , and fell sound asleep . Suddenly he was awakened by a great clatter about his ears , as if all the workmen in the world were sawing and hammering and building close to him . He was just going to spring up and go to see what it meant , when he luckily remembered his wife 's words and lay still . But the time till morning seemed very long , and with the first ray of sun they both rose , and pushed aside the branches of the birch trees . There , in the very place they had chosen , stood a beautiful house -- doors and windows , and everything all complete !
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