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Updated: May 4, 2025
When they were about to go he discovered the foreigner right at the back of the dancing-tent. He urged Hanne to make haste, but she stood there, staring absent-mindedly in the midst of the dancers as though she did not know what was happening around her. The stranger came over to them. Pelle was certain that Hanne had not seen him. Suddenly she came to herself and gripped Pelle's arm.
'Only a big drop came upon my head. 'Let us stand further in. Her hand was hanging by her side, and Somerset's was close by. He took it, and she did not draw it away. Thus they stood a long while, the rain hissing down upon the grass-plot, and not a soul being visible outside the dancing-tent save themselves. 'May I call you Paula? asked he. There was no answer. 'May I? he repeated.
They had seen the fattest goose in the world, and the celebrated flea, "Bismarch," who could drive six horses. Furthermore, they had purchased gingerbread, shot at a target for clay pipes and soft-boiled eggs, and finally had danced a waltz in the spacious dancing-tent. They had never had such fun in their lives. There were no great people there at any rate, none greater than themselves.
There was a different ring, too, in the laughter of the crowd; the men were noisier, the mountebanks leaner, the women more brazen, the music falser so it seemed, at least, to Madame and Monsieur. As they passed the dancing-tent the racket of a quadrille reached their ears. "Great heavens! was it really there that we danced?" said Madame, and nestled closer to her husband.
When they were about to go he discovered the foreigner right at the back of the dancing-tent. He urged Hanne to make haste, but she stood there, staring absent-mindedly in the midst of the dancers as though she did not know what was happening around her. The stranger came over to them. Pelle was certain that Hanne had not seen him. Suddenly she came to herself and gripped Pelle's arm.
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