"If you prefer to go with Miss Hanenwinkel," said Jule quickly, so that
the governess might be sure to hear what he said; "you will be preserved
in salt; quite the opposite you see to plums, which are done in sugar! If
your choice falls on the twins, you will be torn in two, and as to little
Hunne; if you go with him he will talk you deaf!"
In spite of this melancholy prediction, Dora allowed herself to be carried
off by the twins, and Hunne ran after them. When they reached the piano,
Lili began to play her one piece, and when she came to the end, she
glanced at Dora who nodded so pleasantly that Lili, thus encouraged, began
again at the beginning. Presently Dora began to sing the words; Wili, who
was waiting in vain for his chance to play, joined her; then Hunne too; so
that a loud chorus rang out cheerily from the school-room--
"Live your life merrily
While the lamp glows;
Ere it can fade and die,
Gather the rose."
They were so carried away by their own music that the voices rose louder
and louder, and Hunne's out-screamed them all.
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