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the park, promenading through well-lit groves or resting
in pleasant grottos, while pages dressed as Italian or
Spanish fruit-venders offered wine, cake, and comfits from the
baskets they carried on their heads.
The players mingled with the crowd and were
complimented on their art and skill, but all were agreed that, with
the exception of the Crown Princess and Princess Anne
Sofie, none had acted better than Madam Gyldenlöve. Their
Majesties and the Electress praised her cordially, and the
King declared that not even Mademoiselle La Barre could
have interpreted the rôle with more grace and vivacity.
Far into the night the junketing went on in the lighted
park and the adjoining halls of the castle, where violins
and flutes called to the dance, and groaning boards invited
to drinking and carousing. From the lake sounded the gay
laughter of revellers in gondolas strung with lamps. People
swarmed everywhere. The crowds were densest where the
light shone and the music played, more scattered where the
illumination was fainter, but even where darkness reigned
completely and the music was almost lost in the rustling of
leaves, there were merry groups and silent couples. One
lonely guest had strayed far off to the grotto in the eastern
end of the garden and had found a seat there, but he was
in a melancholy mood. The tiny lantern in the leafy roof
of the grotto shone on a sad mien and pensive brows—yellow-white
brows.
It was Sti Högh.
“… E di persona
Anzi grande, che no; di vista allegra,
Di bionda chioma, e colorita alquanto,”
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