Anstatt der Zigeunerin sah der Archidiaconus auf dem nämlichen Teppiche, dessen Arabesken eben erst unter der phantastischen Bewegung ihres Tanzes ineinander schwammen, nur noch den rothen und gelben Mann, der, einige Heller für sich zu gewinnen, mit eingestemmten Armen, zurückgebogenem Kopfe, rothem Gesichte und vorgestrecktem Halse, einen Stuhl zwischen den Zähnen, im Kreise herumging.
In the place of the gypsy, on the carpet, whose arabesques had seemed to vanish but a moment previously by the capricious figures of her dance, the archdeacon no longer beheld any one but the red and yellow man, who, in order to earn a few testers in his turn, was walking round the circle, with his elbows on his hips, his head thrown back, his face red, his neck outstretched, with a chair between his teeth.