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CHAPTER XVII
About a month later, on an April evening, there was
a crowd gathered outside of Ribe cathedral. The
Church Council was in session, and it was customary, while
that lasted, to light the tapers in church three times a week,
at eight o’clock in the evening. The gentry and persons of
quality in town as well as the respectable citizens would
assemble and walk up and down in the nave, while a
skilful musician would play for them on the organ. The poorer
people had to be content to listen from the outside.
Among the latter were Marie Grubbe and Sören.
Their clothing was coarse and ragged, and they looked as
if they had not had enough to eat every day; and no wonder,
for it was not a profitable trade they plied. In an inn between
Aarhus and Randers, Sören had met a poor sick German,
who for twenty marks had sold him a small, badly battered
hurdy-gurdy, a motley fool’s suit, and an old checked rug.
With these he and Marie gained their livelihood, going from
market to market; she would turn the hurdy-gurdy, and
he would stand on the checked rug, dressed in the motley
clothes, lifting and doing tricks with some huge iron weights
and long iron bars, which they borrowed of the tradesmen.
It was the market that had brought them to Ribe.
They were standing near the door, where a faint, faded
strip of light shone on their pale faces and the dark mass of
heads behind them. People were coming singly or in pairs
or small groups, talking and laughing in well-bred
manner to the very threshold of the church, but there they
suddenly became silent, gazed gravely straight before them,
and changed their gait.
Sören was seized with a desire to see more of the show,
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