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There Are Two Pauses When Kaspar Tells Wilhelmine in the Last Stanza that It Was a Famous Victory. Nay … Nay…My Little Girl, Quoth He.What Do These Pauses Show? - English 2 (Literature in English)

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There are two pauses when Kaspar tells Wilhelmine in the last stanza that it was a famous victory. Nay … nay…my little girl, quoth he.What do these pauses show?

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These pauses show that Kaspar was doubtful about the greatness of the war and the victory . But he was so used to believing blindly the popular belief that it was a great victory that he did not refute it although in his heart he did not believe his own words.

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