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get in. The step of the carriage was so high that she couldn't reach it. Her little foot was waving around like the paw of a dog who wants to "shake hands." Gerold at once jumped to the ground and propping her up on his knee and his stomach, put his hands under her arms and shoved her into the carriage, in spite of her cries.
"I beg your pardon," she whispered by way of thanks, and held out her hand to him. This made him feel so gentle, that he nearly accepted her hand-shake, when he suddenly remembered that she had called him a heavy artillery man. So he hardened his heart and climbed up on the front seat without a single kind word. As soon as he was up the carriage rolled off with the bells jingling.
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