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Updated: June 22, 2025
Nay, nay, nay, nay then, nay say I! But now I think about it, it was quite for the best that I accept you but indeed you were a little hasty; I've a good mind to What now? What is fresh in hand? Comes her little grace, the little sister-in-law, without any ceremony and kisses me. Heavens! the world is very merry!" But nobody in the whole circle found the world so merry as Petrea.
It was not therefore to be wondered at, that she recoiled tremblingly from the unlovely and hateful which is at home by the road sides. Petrea listened with a strongly beating heart; the rustling came nearer and nearer; for one moment she thought of concealing herself on the opposite side of the way, but in the next she boldly demanded "Who is there?" All was still.
They ran back to the grotto; they sought and called, but all in vain Petrea was nowhere to be found! and uneasiness very soon changed itself into actual anxiety. We will now ourselves go in quest of Petrea.
The pause in the music astonished the dancers; they looked around them. Petrea took advantage of this moment, went into the crowd and called for the host. The host, who was celebrating his daughter's wedding, came forward; he was a fat, somewhat pursy man, who evidently had taken a glass too much.
"Most humble thanks!" said Lieutenant Y., taking the rose with misfortune-promising indifference. But Fate delivered Petrea from the unpleasantness of waiting in vain for a politeness she desired, for suddenly there arose a disturbance in the ball-room, and voices were heard which said, "She is fainting! Gracious heaven! Sara!"
Petrea forgot that she was sitting while she looked upon her. She thought that she had never seen anything so transporting as Sara in the whirl of the dance. But the Countess Solenstråle, as she sate in her chair, said of this couple nothing; nay, people even imagined that they read an expression of displeasure in her countenance. The Misses Aftonstjerna sailed round with much dignity.
Overpowered by her excited feelings, surrendered to the transports of the moment, and nearly choked with tears, Petrea sank on the breast of Jeremias, stammering forth her undefined wishes. If a millstone had fallen round his neck, our good Assessor could not have been more confounded than he was at that moment.
Petrea is a little lively girl, with a turn for almost everything, whether good or bad; curious and restless is she, and beyond measure full of failings; she has a dangerous desire to make herself observed, and to excite an interest. Her activity shows itself in destructiveness; yet she is good-hearted and most generous.
Henrik eyed his future preceptor with a joyous, confiding glance; the Queen-bee curtseyed very becomingly, and then made several steps backward as the young man seemed inclined to take the great liberty of kissing her; whilst Petrea turned up her nose with an inquisitive saucy air.
But Ernst shall not find me awake when he returns: this I have promised him. Good night, sweet Cecilia! We will now, in this place, give a little description of the letter-writer of the mother of Henrik, Louise, Eva, Leonore, Petrea, and Gabriele. Beautiful she certainly was not, but nature had given to her a noble growth, which was still as fine and delicate as that of a young girl.
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