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Updated: July 4, 2025
By and by the gentleman comes-to a little, and passing his hand gloomily across his forehead, reseats himself in his former chair. There is a long silence, and this time the lady begins. ‘I appealed to Mr.
Hilda instantly reseats herself: none shall know how interested she is; none shall know how anxious, how filled with one hope. Shut your eyes, then, Hilda, hide your face rippling with joy. Peter has beaten. "PETER VAN HOLP, ONE MILE!" calls the crier. The same buzz of excitement as before, while the judges take notes, the same throbbing of music through the din; but something is different.
And farther down, in the dimly lighted vaults at the end, is one who disdains to eat, or who, maybe, has no bread; who, when his sweeping is done, reseats himself on his mat, and, opening his Koran, commences to read aloud with the customary intonation.
A good while passes, and yet no one answers his inquiring glance. He begins to manifest signs of impatience. As if to kill time, he repeatedly rises, and again reseats himself. With his eye he measures the altitude of the sun the watch of the backwoodsman and as the bright orb rises higher in the heavens, his spirits appear to sink in proportion. His look is no longer cheerful.
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