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The men there made her alert, roused her curiosity. It was a new taste of life for her, they were so prostrate before her, yet so full of life. The party was boisterous; they were dancing all together, dancing the Schuhplatteln, the Tyrolese dance of the clapping hands and tossing the partner in the air at the crisis. The Germans were all proficient they were from Munich chiefly.
'Why funny, what is funny? he asked. 'Why to see you working it on her, she said, with a half reproach that confused the male conceit in him. 'Really Gerald, the poor girl ! 'I did nothing to her, he said. 'Oh, it was too shameful, the way you simply swept her off her feet. 'That was Schuhplatteln, he replied, with a bright grin. 'Ha ha ha! laughed Gudrun.
Instinctively she felt this, and she waited for him to come up. But a kind of sulkiness kept him away from her, so she thought he disliked her. 'Will you schuhplatteln, gnadige Frau? said the large, fair youth, Loerke's companion. He was too soft, too humble for Gudrun's taste.
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