[Smiley's way home has been blocked by the parade.
He puts up with it in quiet, patient suffering, all the way through the business with the streamers. As small children push past him and revelers elbow him casually in their passage, he pauses to disentangle a streamer that has somehow gotten caught in his glasses.]
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He puts up with it in quiet, patient suffering, all the way through the business with the streamers. As small children push past him and revelers elbow him casually in their passage, he pauses to disentangle a streamer that has somehow gotten caught in his glasses.]