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The group was disarranged, people laughed and found it amusing, but the Kammerjunker scolded aloud, and swore that she should come in again; at that the laughter of the spectators increased, and was not lessened when the Kammerjunker, forgetting his costume as the Somnambule, half stepped into the frame in which the pictures were represented, and seated the Mamsell on the bench.
"I believe the Mamsell would willingly lay thee in her own work-box, were that to be done." Otto remained quiet, but in his soul there was a strange commotion. It would be a difficult thing to explain this motive, which belonged to his peculiarity of mind; it entered among the mysteries of the soul.
"Will you not take the Kammerjunker's sister?" whispered she. Mechanically, Otto made his bow before Miss Jakoba. "Take one of the young ladies!" said she; "you would rather do that?" Otto bowed, cast a glance toward Sophie; she had the old pastor. Otto smiled, and conducted Jakoba to table. The Mamsell, renowned through her work-box, sat on his left hand.
A little later Mamsell Fredrika sat in the church, in the same place where she had sat as a child. Here she forgot both the knight and the ghosts, and sat smiling in quiet delight at the thought of the revelation of the glory of God.
When Mamsell insisted upon having my best clothes I naturally said, 'nong, nong, and shook my head till I was dizzy, but Manon patted me and coaxed me, and sure as the world she got her way, as women always do. All at once I had got my trunk unlocked and she ran away with my confirmation coat and all the rest of the tilings.
"Sister," whispered Mamsell Fredrika, "can you not forbid them to make me, poor, sinful being, proud?" "But, sisters, sisters," continued the voice, "she has turned against our race with all her great power. At her cry for freedom and work for all, the old, despised livers on charity have died out. She has broken down the tyranny that fenced in childhood.
He besieged Namur; fought and besieged up and down, with insatiable appetite for fighting and sieging; with great honor, too, and ambitions awakening in him; campaign after campaign: but along with the flamy-thundery ideal bride, figuratively called Bellona, there was always a soft real one, Mamsell Fos of Dessau, to whom he continued constant.
The eyes of the boarders were no longer directed in anger and injured dignity at the pretty widow, but fell with complacency and sympathy upon the weeping girl, who now found friends at the expense of another, as so often happens if one loses, another must win. "Really, can none of us do anything to help Mamsell Rauchfuss to compose herself?"
At Årsta some one came into Mamsell Fredrika's room and laid her hand gently on the sleeper's arm. "Up, my Fredrika! It is time to go to the early mass." Old Mamsell Fredrika opened her eyes and saw Agathe, her beloved sister who was dead, standing by the bed with a candle in her hand. She recognized her, for she looked just as she had done on earth.
When Koerner fell in love with the amiable Minna and wished to marry her, he met with opposition in his own family, who thought that the 'engraver's mamsell' was not good enough for him. This little touch of adversity converted him from a gentleman of leisure and a browsing philosopher into a man with a purpose in life. He set about making himself independent of the family wealth.
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