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How well I chose,—past understanding well;— I feel a bliss that nothing can dispel.

There stands your mistress; tell us, if you can, The right demeanor for a plighted man.

[perturbed]. That's a third person's business to declare. [joking]. Ill-tempered! This to Anna's ears I'll bear. [Goes to the ladies.

[looking after him].

Can such a man be tolerated?

You Mistook his aim, however,—

And how so?

It was not Anna that he had in view.

How, was it Svanhild?