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Being of a discerning mind, she idled about the Platz till after nine, for it had been told to her that the great sleep rather late in the hness? What kind of a curtsy should she h her head At least she would wear no humble, servile air For Gretchen was a bit of a socialist Did not Herr Goldberg, whom the police detested, did he not say that allstates in the dahed at soanda, she received seriously enough that which proclai as she obeyed nature's laws and Heaven's, was she not indeed the equal of queens and princesses, who, it was said, did not always obey these laws?

With a confidence born of right and innocence, she proceeded toward the east or side gates of the palace The sentry shness," she said

"Leave it"

"I ahness herself"

"Good day, then!" laughed the soldier "You can not enter the gardens without a permit"

Gretchen remembered "Will you send some one to his excellency the chancellor and tell hi? The very na truthfully?"

Gretchen exhibited the note He scratched his chin, perplexed

"Run along If they ask me, I'll say that I didn't see you" The sentry resuates, and the real beauty of the gardens was revealed to her for the first tireat broad leaves, grass-like carpet, and giant ferns, unlike anything she had plucked in the valleys and the mountains It was all a fairy-land There werevines, and marble statues She loitered in this pebbled path and that, forgetful of her errand Even had her mind been filled with the io to find the proper entrance

A hand grasped her rudely by the arardener "Be off with you! Don't you know that no one is allowed in here without a perry

"How dare you touch ularly arrogant, cooled even the warm-blooded Hermann