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From that moment the gaieties of the festival had no attraction for him, and he wandered disconsolately among the merry-makers, thinking only of the lovely face that had caught his fancy. Toward nightfall he embarked in a little boat and floated idly down the Rhine.
The women particularly seem to literally revel in the exuberance of bright coloring adorning their dusky proportions, the profusion of jewellery, the merry jingle-jangle of the cymbals, the more than generous heat, and the seeming bountifulness of everything. These Sikh and Jatni merry-makers early impress me as being particularly happy and light-hearted people.
They found themselves seated apart from the rest of the merry-makers, on the bank shadowed by lime-trees; the man listening with downcast eyes, the girl with mobile shifting glances, now on earth, now on heaven, and talking freely, gayly like the babble of a happy stream, with a silvery dulcet voice and a sparkle of rippling smiles.
Standing in the shadow near the entrance, aroused from a train of reflections by this abrupt exodus, the soldier saw among the other merry-makers, Constance and the count, who passed through the door, so near he could almost have touched her. "Here she is," said the count, as they approached an elderly lady, seated near the edge of the balcony.
Slaans were leaping about the room huge, half-naked men brandishing primitive knives. Flashing steel, buried in the backs of the fleeing merry-makers. Other figures Earth men they seemed gripping the slaans, staying their murderous fury. Tarrano? I did not see him at first. The air above the floor of the pavilion was full of snapping sparks a battle of some unknown rays.
Martin had long since selected this mansion as a proper position for his enterprise, but he had not been bidden to the wedding, and was somewhat disconcerted when he found himself on the festive scene which he had so grimly interrupted. Some of the merry-makers escaped from the house, and proceeded to alarm the town; while Schenk hastily fortified his position; and took possession of the square.
Who could be unhappy for long in such a world as this, where the air sparkled like champagne, and the magic of it ran riot in the blood? The black mood passed away from her spirit like a cloud. She threw on cap and coat and ran to join the merry-makers. All through that afternoon Dinah and Billy played like cubs in the snow.
So preoccupied was every one on this particular occasion that the merry-makers had hardly a thought for their king, who, left to his own devices, sought out four maids of honour gossiping in a bower, and, taking the mischief-loving Lauzan into his confidence, pried upon them in the ambush of the night.
The butchers, the bakers, the candlestick makers, join together and compete. They arrive in wagons, each group with its band. Free trade is encouraged. Each neighbouring town and village "dumps" its load of picturesque merry-makers. It is in these smaller towns that the spirit of King Carnival finds happiest expression. Almost every third inhabitant takes part in the fun.
The general's gray face had seemed to grow grayer in the gloom. Again there came, like a rippling echo, the chorus of merry laughter from the adjoining tent, only it seemed a trifle subdued, possibly as though one or two of the merry-makers had joined less heartily. With sudden movement the general rose: "Well, I've kept you long enough," he said.
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