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He chatted away cheerfully, the young girl listening with flushed cheeks and radiant eyes, and answering laughingly from time to time. They neither of them noticed that meanwhile Frau von Gropphusen had emptied her glass and was preparing to go. "Many thanks," she said. "I was nearly fainting. The Maibowle has done me good. But it's getting late; I must go home."
At such times her small finely-chiselled features would light up with a glorious beauty; so that Güntz one day whispered to his wife, "Do you know what the Gropphusen needs? A child!" And in his open-hearted way he once said jokingly to Hannah: "Wouldn't you like a beautiful boy like that for yourself, dear lady?" At that Hannah Gropphusen sprang up wildly.
It is wrong of me not to be able to control myself better. Don't be vexed, or angry with me, but please just forget what has happened." She began hurriedly to prepare for leaving. Her hands still shook as she pinned on her hat before the mirror. "Let me go with you, dear Frau von Gropphusen," urged Kläre.
Now I know why Fröben and Landsberg were staring at me so." Then she pouted: "But Frau von Gropphusen looked nice dressed like this!" Her husband answered quietly: "My child, 'quod licet Jovi, non licet bovi." "What? What does that mean?" Kauerhof translated gallantly, "You are prettier than the Gropphusen, my Marion; but she is thinner than you."
On the morning of their march to the practice-camp, Captain von Gropphusen, the head of the second battery, was missing. Major Lischke sent his adjutant to the Gropphusens' villa to ask for news. The lieutenant came back with the answer that Captain von Gropphusen had as usual gone to town the evening before, and had not yet returned. Lischke grumbled.
Their lips met, and she whispered: "If chance had not led you to me to-day then I should have gone to you. I love you so." Late in the afternoon Frau von Gropphusen rang for the maid; but the girl had been allowed to go out, and had not yet returned. The groom from the stable came hastening to answer the second ring. He stood still in the doorway, astonished.
Stuckhardt stepped back feeling considerably snubbed. Träger, Gropphusen, and Heuschkel got rather neutral pressures of the hand; Gropphusen, perhaps, being of noble family, was greeted rather more warmly than the others. Kauerhof proceeded with his introductions: "And now, sir, here is the head of our sixth battery, Captain von Wegstetten." Mohbrinck twisted his lips into a honied smile.
"Look here," cried Kläre quite roused, "I don't want any of them to fall on my neck when they scarcely know me. And as it happens, one has been kind to me, very kind indeed!" "Pooh! Who, then?" "Frau von Gropphusen!" "Oh, I am not surprised. I except her. She is not a goose. But she's a crazy creature, all the same." "Fatty! Don't be abominable! What has the poor woman done to you?"
The colonel accompanied her to the gate, and the four in the arbour went over to the balustrade. Güntz had put his arm tenderly round Frau Kläre, and Reimers was standing beside Marie Falkenhein. They watched Hannah Gropphusen mount her bicycle and ride slowly away. She turned round in the saddle, waved her right hand, and shouted out a laughing "Good-night."
He had, of course, been absent from the tennis club for a whole year, and she was all the more delighted at the approach of fine weather. Frau von Gropphusen and Reimers were always the last to leave the ground, when the balls were often hardly discernible in the gathering twilight. She soon found that her opponent had, during his absence, come on very much in his play.
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