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Mrs Dene and her daughter rose and went quietly out into the porch, while the Frau Foerster, with cold, round gray eyes and a tight mouth, was whispering to her frowning spouse that it was none of his business, and why get himself into trouble? Besides, Mrs Dene's Herr Gemahl, meaning the absent colonel, would come back in a day or two; let him attend to Mr Blumenthal.
'WIE ALT? he repeated. And he hesitated. It was evidently one of his reticencies. 'How old are YOU? he replied, without answering. 'I am twenty-six, she answered. 'Twenty-six, he repeated, looking into her eyes. He paused. Then he said: 'UND IHR HERR GEMAHL, WIE ALT IS ER? 'Who? asked Gudrun. 'Your husband, said Ursula, with a certain irony.
It had been clear to him as soon as FRICKA rose from sleep and looked out over the young world, stretching one white arm toward the new Gotterburg shining on the heights. "WOTAN! GEMAHL! ERWACHE!" She was pure Scandinavian, this FRICKA: "Swedish summer"! he remembered old Mr. Nathanmeyer's phrase.
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