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Was this the way he looked?—not very, very much
taller? And his eyes were not fiery black, they were
blue—such dear blue eyes, but sad—that was something she
could not have imagined. He was pale and looked as if he
were sorry about something. Ah, he smiled, but not in a
really happy way. How white his teeth were, and what
a nice mouth he had, so small and finely formed!
As she looked, he grew more and more handsome in her
eyes, and she wondered how she could ever have fancied
him larger or in any way different from what he was. She
forgot her shyness and thought only of the eulogies of him
she had heard. She saw him storming at the head of his
troops, amid the exultant cries of the people. All fell back
before him, as the waves are thrown off, when they rise
frothing around the broad breast of a galleon. Cannon
thundered, swords flashed, bullets whistled through dark
clouds of smoke, but he pressed onward, brave and erect,
and on his stirrup Victory hung—in the words of a
chronicle she had read.
Her eyes shone upon him full of admiration and
enthusiasm.
He made a sudden movement and met her gaze, but
turned his head away, with difficulty repressing a
triumphant smile. The next moment he rose as though he had
just caught sight of Marie Grubbe.
Mistress Rigitze said this was her little niece, and Marie
made her courtesy.
Ulrik Christian was astonished and perhaps a trifle
disappointed to find that the eyes that had given him such
a look were those of a child.
“Ma chère,” he said with a touch of mockery, as he
looked down at her lace, “you’re a past mistress in the art
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