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Updated: April 30, 2025
She placed the roast hare right in front of the two fish-buyers, whereupon she took a bottle of soda-water to the two commercial travellers, who sat in the inner room. Then she gave the anxious countryman a tallow candle, and, as she slipped out again, she put sixty-three öre into the hand of the stranger by the stove. The innkeeper's wife was in utter despair.
'These country girls are very white-skinned, said one of the fish-buyers to the other. They were young men, and talked about Karen as connoisseurs. At the window was a man who looked at the clock and said: 'The post comes early to-night.
She had, indeed, quite unexpectedly found her keys, but lost the lawyer's letter immediately after, and now the whole inn was in the most frightful commotion. None had got what they wanted all were shouting together. The commercial men kept continuously ringing the table bell; the fish-buyers went into fits of laughter over the roast hare, which lay straddling on the dish before them.
Madame whined a little, but she never scolded Karen; there was not a person in the world who could scold Karen. Quietly and without haste Karen again walked to and fro, and the air of peaceful comfort that always followed her once more overspread the snug, half-dark parlour. But the two fish-buyers, who had had both one and two cognacs with their coffee, were quite taken up with her.
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