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  Speaker 1: Introduction of the Wonderful History of Peter Schlemil, The Man
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  Speaker 1: Who Lost his Shadow. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information
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  Speaker 1: Mihai Borobocha. The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemil, The Man
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  Speaker 1: Who Lost His Shadow by Adelbert von Chamisso, translated by
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  Speaker 1: Frederick Henry Hedge, edited with introduction and notes by William R. Alger. Introduction.
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  Speaker 1: It is over three quarters of a century since Chamisov
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  Speaker 1: published his romantic and symbolic story of Peter Schlemil, The
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  Speaker 1: Man Who Lost his Shadow. It was received with a
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  Speaker 1: general favor that gave it immediate celebrity. It has been
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  Speaker 1: translated into almost every modern language, and has passed through
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  Speaker 1: so many additions that it is now fully established as
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  Speaker 1: one of the little classics of the world. It is
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  Speaker 1: so widely known, there are in current literature so many
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  Speaker 1: allusions to it, and it is treated with so much
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  Speaker 1: interest and instruction, that it has a good claim to
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  Speaker 1: be read by every educated person. The realistic power with
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  Speaker 1: which the tale is constructed, the stereoscopic distinctness of the characters,
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  Speaker 1: the naturalness and consistency of the incidents, the wit and
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  Speaker 1: humor with which the pages abound give the work an
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  Speaker 1: attractive charm, amply sufficient of itself to carry the reader
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  Speaker 1: delightedly along from the beginning to the end. In addition
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  Speaker 1: to this, there is a bewitching mystery in the fundamental
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  Speaker 1: idea of the story. The narrative is a series of
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  Speaker 1: latent riddles loaded with enigmatical morals. Just what those morals
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  Speaker 1: are it is somewhat difficult to explain. Perhaps the author
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  Speaker 1: intended to leave this aspect of his artistic creation wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in indefiniteness, on purpose to provoke the mental activity of
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  Speaker 1: his readers, that each one might get at the significance
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  Speaker 1: of the work for himself. It is well known that
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  Speaker 1: Jethe was in the habit of saying, when asked what
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  Speaker 1: he meant to teach by a particular poem or tale,
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  Speaker 1: that it had no definite didactic purpose. He declared that
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  Speaker 1: he wished to convey in it all that his readers
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  Speaker 1: could discover, either in the words or between the lines,
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  Speaker 1: and that he expected the results to be as varied
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  Speaker 1: as the talents and acquirements brought to the task of interpretation.
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  Speaker 1: No doubt, however, there will be many readers of the
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  Speaker 1: strange adventures of Peter Schlemil who will be glad to
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  Speaker 1: receive a little help in understanding the real meaning of
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  Speaker 1: the chief incident in the experience of the central personage,
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  Speaker 1: namely the loss of his shadow. The critical reader will
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  Speaker 1: find that this artistic and weird narrative is at once
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  Speaker 1: a romantic kiddle, an ethical apologe, a witty satire, and
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  Speaker 1: a philosophical parable. These points shall now be briefly shown,
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  Speaker 1: and later on further elucidated in the notes in the outset.
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  Speaker 1: It is quite obvious that the thought of the writer
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  Speaker 1: is not confined to the literal shadow itself. Deeper than this,
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  Speaker 1: and far more important, there is hidden a parallel spiritual significance.
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  Speaker 1: What is then, the metaphorical moral correspondence of the physical
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  Speaker 1: shadow frowned by a human body when it intercepts the light.
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  Speaker 1: The reputation of a man among those familiar with him
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  Speaker 1: is the shadow cast by his character. This is the
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  Speaker 1: idea they entertain of him. When he goes to a
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  Speaker 1: foreign place where he is a stranger. He carries no reputation.
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  Speaker 1: He has lost his moral shadow. The impervious ignorance prevalent
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  Speaker 1: concerning him there prevents the appearance of any adumbration of
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  Speaker 1: what he is. For where there is no light to
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  Speaker 1: be intercepted, no shadow can be thrown. Shadows are alike
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  Speaker 1: impossible in complete darkness and in universal radiance. It is
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  Speaker 1: because when a man is with his acquaintances, his character
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  Speaker 1: is partly known and partly unknown, has one aspect illuminated
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  Speaker 1: and one darkened, that he flings a shadow. This shadow
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  Speaker 1: is his social repute. But when he appears in a
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  Speaker 1: new place, where he is a total stranger, he no
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  Speaker 1: longer possesses this. And to be wholly without repute is
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  Speaker 1: to be unlike those around you, And to be unlike
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  Speaker 1: your fellows is to be cut off from sympathetic union
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  Speaker 1: with them, and to be regarded askens with suspicion and
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  Speaker 1: with fear. Hence the distress of Peter Schlemlle. A more
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  Speaker 1: profound thought connected with the subject is that he who
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  Speaker 1: casts no shadow thereby proves that he is himself no substance.
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  Speaker 1: He who fronts the light with the background behind him,
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  Speaker 1: and yet remains shadowless, is transparent to the day. The
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  Speaker 1: day shines through him. He therefore cannot belong to the
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  Speaker 1: order of living men, but must be some kind of
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  Speaker 1: supernatural or preternatural being. Accordingly, he is isolated from them,
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  Speaker 1: a wholesome class of normal creatures who shrink from the
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  Speaker 1: uncanny phenomenon with terror. Hence again the suffering and grief
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  Speaker 1: occasion to Peter Schlemil by the loss of his shadow, which,
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  Speaker 1: although in itself it seems to be nothing, is still
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  Speaker 1: a sign indicative of much to those who can interpret it.
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  Speaker 1: But after all, the principal lesson of the narrative is
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  Speaker 1: the lesson of the comparative value of things, as between
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  Speaker 1: spirit and matter, which is the enduring reality and which
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  Speaker 1: the delusive phantom, as between outward show and inward worth,
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  Speaker 1: which is the shadow, and which the substance. In one
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  Speaker 1: passage of his work, chamisso represents Peter as being much
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  Speaker 1: displeased with a company of persons who spoke seriously of
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  Speaker 1: trifles and triflingly of serious things. This is the keynote.
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  Speaker 1: Things are to be esteemed according to their genuine values,
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  Speaker 1: not according to their mere appearance. Peter himself practiced the
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  Speaker 1: inverse of this, when he sold the Companionable index of
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  Speaker 1: his personality for a copious supply of gold. And bitterly
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  Speaker 1: did he rule his folly, For he soon learned that
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  Speaker 1: peace of mind and friendly communion with his fellow men
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  Speaker 1: on equal terms, were the incomparable good of life, the
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  Speaker 1: veritable substance, whereof money was merely a hollow symbol on
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  Speaker 1: the whole. Then the supreme lesson inculcated by the experience
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  Speaker 1: of Peter Schlemiel, is this. What a man is creates
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  Speaker 1: his reputation. His reputation is what other people think of him.
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  Speaker 1: That they should think well of him is one of
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  Speaker 1: the most important element of his happiness. His social shadow
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  Speaker 1: is the projection of his personal character. This index may
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  Speaker 1: be mistaken or changed, or taken away, but his genuine
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  Speaker 1: character is incommunicably his own property. Character cannot, like money,
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  Speaker 1: be indiscriminately exchanged among men. However its outward indications may
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  Speaker 1: be confused, However, its conventional accomplishments may be altered or forfeited.
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  Speaker 1: It is itself the intrinsic reality, the invaluable solid. Therefore
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  Speaker 1: it must never be subordinated to anything else, nor its
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  Speaker 1: appropriate signal be bartered away for any seductive Counterfeit In
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  Speaker 1: most cases, man is not what he thinks he is.
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  Speaker 1: In many cases, he is not what others think him.
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  Speaker 1: In every case, he is what God thinks him. The
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  Speaker 1: true desidratum is that he shall himself know just what
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  Speaker 1: he is and aspire to become what God would have
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  Speaker 1: him be.
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  Speaker 2: End of introduction, Chapter one of the Wonderful History of
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  Speaker 2: Peter Schlemiel, The Man Who Lost His Shadow. This is
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  Speaker 2: a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
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  Speaker 2: Recording by Ashley M. The Wonderful History of Peter Schlimiel
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  Speaker 2: The Man Who Lost His Shadow by A. Delbert bon Chamaso,
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  Speaker 2: translated by Frederick Henry Hedge. Chapter one. After a fortunate
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  Speaker 2: but for me very troublesome voyage, we finally reached the
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  Speaker 2: port the instant that I touched land in the boat,
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  Speaker 2: I loaded myself with my hue effects, and passing through
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  Speaker 2: the swarming people, I entered the first and least house,
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  Speaker 2: before which I saw a sign hang. I requested a room.
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  Speaker 2: The servants measured me with a look and conducted me
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  Speaker 2: into the garret. I caused fresh water to be brought,
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  Speaker 2: and made him exactly describe to me where I should
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  Speaker 2: find mister Thomas John. For the north gate the first
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  Speaker 2: country house on the right hand, a large new house
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  Speaker 2: of red and white marble, with many columns.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 2: It was still early in the day. I opened at
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  Speaker 2: once my bundle, took thence my new black cloth coat,
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  Speaker 2: clad myself cleanly in my best apparel, put my letter
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  Speaker 2: of introduction into my pocket, and sat out on the
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  Speaker 2: way to the man who was to promote my modest expectations.
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  Speaker 2: When I had ascended the long north street and reached
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  Speaker 2: the gate, I soon saw the pillars glimmer through the foliage. Here,
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  Speaker 2: it is then thought I. I wiped the dust from
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  Speaker 2: my feet with my pocket handkerchief, and put my neckcloth
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  Speaker 2: an order, and rang the bell. The dwarf flew woken
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  Speaker 2: in the hall. I had an examination to undergo. The porter, however,
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  Speaker 2: permitted me to be announced, and I had the honor
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  Speaker 2: to be called into the park where mister John was
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  Speaker 2: walking with a select party. I recognized the man at
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  Speaker 2: once by the luster of his corpulent self complacency. He
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  Speaker 2: received me very well, as a rich man receives a
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  Speaker 2: poor fellow. Even turned towards me, without turning from the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the company, and took the offered letter from
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  Speaker 2: my hand. So so from my brother. I have heard
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  Speaker 2: nothing from him for a long time, but he is well.
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  Speaker 2: There continued he, addressing the company without waiting for an answer,
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  Speaker 2: and pointing with the letter to a hill. There I
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  Speaker 2: am going to erect the new building. Footnote Here and
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  Speaker 2: in what follows through the opening chapter, the author indicates
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  Speaker 2: to the satirical subtlety, the contrast and the manners of
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  Speaker 2: the rich toward the poor, and those of the poorest,
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  Speaker 2: the rich the antithesis of insolence and obsequiousness. He thus
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  Speaker 2: prepares the way for his central theme, namely being inverted
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  Speaker 2: relation in human life of worth and esteem, truth and
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  Speaker 2: sea may. Milton noticed the fact that the self sufficiency
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  Speaker 2: bred by the habit of looking down upon inferriers often
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  Speaker 2: leads to a neglect of thoughtful and sympathetic attention. He says,
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  Speaker 2: courtesy is sooner found in lowly sheds with smoky rafters
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  Speaker 2: than in tapestry halls and courts of princes, where at
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  Speaker 2: first was named and footnote. He broke the seal without
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  Speaker 2: breaking off the conversation which turned upon riches. He that
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  Speaker 2: is not muster of a million at least, he observed,
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  Speaker 2: is pardon me the word a wretch? Oh, how true,
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  Speaker 2: I exclaimed, with a rush of overflowing feeling that pleased him.
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  Speaker 2: He smiled at me and said, stay here, my good friend.
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  Speaker 2: In a while I shall perhaps have time to tell
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  Speaker 2: you what I think about this. He pointed to the letter,
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  Speaker 2: which he then thrust into his pocket, and turned again
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  Speaker 2: to the company. He offered his arm to a young lady.
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  Speaker 2: The other gentlemen addressed themselves to the fair ones. Each
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  Speaker 2: found what suited him, and all proceeded towards the rose
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  Speaker 2: blossomed mount. I slid into the rear without troubling any one,
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  Speaker 2: for no one troubled himself any further about me. The
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  Speaker 2: company was excessively lively. There was stallions and playfulness. Trifles
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  Speaker 2: were sometimes discussed with an important tone, but oftener important matters,
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  Speaker 2: with levity and especially pleasantry, flowed the wit over absent
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  Speaker 2: friends and their circumstances. I was too strange to understand
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  Speaker 2: much of all this, too anxious and introverted to take
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  Speaker 2: an interest in such riddles. We had reached the rosary,
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  Speaker 2: the lovely Fanny, the belle of the day, as it appeared, would,
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  Speaker 2: out of obstinacy, herself break off a blooming bow. She
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  Speaker 2: wounded herself on a thorn, and as if from the
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  Speaker 2: dark roses, flowed the purple on her tender hands. This
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  Speaker 2: circumstance put the whole party into a flutter. English plaster
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  Speaker 2: was sought for A still thin, lanky, Longish Oldish man,
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  Speaker 2: who stood near, and I had not hitherto remarked, put
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  Speaker 2: his hand instantly into the close lying breast pocket of
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  Speaker 2: his old French gray taffity coat. Produced thence a little
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  Speaker 2: pocket book, opened it and presented to the lady, with
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  Speaker 2: a profound obyssence the required article. She took it, without
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  Speaker 2: noticing the giver, and without thanks. Footnote an example of
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  Speaker 2: the impoliteness often practiced in polite society and footnote. The
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  Speaker 2: wound was bound up, and we went forward over the hill,
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  Speaker 2: from whose back the company could enjoy the wide prospect
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  Speaker 2: over the green labyrinth of the park to the boundless ocean.
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  Speaker 2: The view was, in reality vast and splendid. A light
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  Speaker 2: point appeared on the horiyes, between the dark blood and
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  Speaker 2: the blue of heaven. The telescopire cried John, and already
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  Speaker 2: before the servants who appeared at the call were in motioned,
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  Speaker 2: the gray man, modestly bowing, had thrust his hand into
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  Speaker 2: his coat pocket and drawn thence the beautiful dolland, and
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  Speaker 2: handed it to mister John, Bringing it immediately to his eye.
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  Speaker 2: He informed the company that it was the ship which
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  Speaker 2: went out yesterday and was detained in view of port
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  Speaker 2: by contrary winds. The telescope passed from hand to hand,
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  Speaker 2: but not again into that of its owner. I, however,
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  Speaker 2: gazed and wonder at the man, and could not conceive
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  Speaker 2: how the great machine had come out of the narrow pocket.
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  Speaker 2: But this seemed to have struck no one else, and
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  Speaker 2: nobody troubled himself any further about the gray man than
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  Speaker 2: about him myself. Refreshments were handed round, the choicest fruits
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  Speaker 2: of every zone in the costliest vessels. Mister John did
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  Speaker 2: the honors with an easy grace, and a second time
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  Speaker 2: addressed a word to me, hope yourself you have not
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  Speaker 2: had the like at sea. I bowed, but he saw
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  Speaker 2: it not he was already speaking with someone else. The
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  Speaker 2: company would fain have reclined upon the sword on the
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  Speaker 2: slope of the hill opposite to the outstretched landscape, had
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  Speaker 2: they not feared the dampness of the earth, it were divine,
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  Speaker 2: observed one of the party. But we had but a
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  Speaker 2: turkey carpet to spread here. The wish was scarcely expressed
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  Speaker 2: when the man in the gray coat had his hand
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  Speaker 2: in his pocket and was busied in drawing, thence with
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  Speaker 2: a modest and even humble deportment, a rich turkey carpet
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  Speaker 2: interwoven with gold. The servants received it as a matter
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  Speaker 2: of course, and opened it on the required spot. The company,
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  Speaker 2: without ceremony, took their places upon it. For myself, I
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  Speaker 2: looked again in amazement on the man at the carpet,
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  Speaker 2: which measured above twenty paces long as ten in breadth,
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  Speaker 2: and rubbed my eyes, not knowing what to think of it,
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  Speaker 2: especially as nobody saw anything extraordinary in it. I would
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  Speaker 2: fain have had some ex nation regarding the man, and
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  Speaker 2: have asked who he was, But I knew not to
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  Speaker 2: whom to address myself, for I was almost more afraid
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  Speaker 2: of the gentleman's servants than of the served gentleman. At length,
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  Speaker 2: I took courage and stepped up to a young man
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  Speaker 2: who appeared to me to be of less consideration than
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  Speaker 2: the rest, and who had often stood alone. I begged
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  Speaker 2: him softly to tell me who the agreeable man in
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  Speaker 2: the gray coat there was he the he looks like
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  Speaker 2: an end of thread that has escaped out of a
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  Speaker 2: ta'zeedle footnote, a whit quite like that embodied by Shakespeare
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  Speaker 2: in the speeches of Balstaff and footnote. Yes, he stands alone.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know him, he replied, and, as it seemed,
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  Speaker 2: in order to avoid a longer conversation with me, he
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  Speaker 2: turned away and spoke of indifferent matters to another. The
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  Speaker 2: sun began now to shine more powerfully, and to inconvenience
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  Speaker 2: the ladies. The lovely Fanny addressed carelessly to the gray man, who,
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  Speaker 2: as far as I am aware, no one had yet
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  Speaker 2: spoken to the trifling question whether he had not perchance
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  Speaker 2: also a tent by him? He answered her by an
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  Speaker 2: obyssius almost profound, as if an unmerited honor were done him,
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  Speaker 2: and had already his hand in his pocket, out of
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  Speaker 2: which I saw some canvas, bulls, cordage, ironwork. In short,
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  Speaker 2: everything which belongs to the most splendid pleasure tents. The
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  Speaker 2: young gentleman helped to expand it, and it covered the
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  Speaker 2: whole extent of the carpet, and nobody found anything remarkable
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  Speaker 2: in it. I was already become uneasy, nay horrified at heart,
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  Speaker 2: but how completely so, as at the very next wish expressed,
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  Speaker 2: I saw him yet pull out of his pocket three roadsters.
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  Speaker 2: I tell THEE three beautiful great black horses with saddle,
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  Speaker 2: and comparison, bethink THEE three saddled horses, still out of
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  Speaker 2: the same pocket, out of which already a pocket book,
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  Speaker 2: a telescope, an embroidered carpet, twenty paces long and ten broad,
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  Speaker 2: a pleasure tense of equal dimensions, and all the requisite
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  Speaker 2: poles and dins that come forth. If I did not
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  Speaker 2: protest to THEE that I saw it myself with my
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  Speaker 2: own eyes, thou couldst not possibly believe it. Embarrassed and
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  Speaker 2: obsequious as the man himself appeared to be little as
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  Speaker 2: was the attention which had been bestowed upon him, Yet
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  Speaker 2: to me his grisly aspect, from which I could not
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  Speaker 2: turn my eyes became so fearful that I could bear
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  Speaker 2: it no longer. I resolved to steal away from the company, which,
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  Speaker 2: from the insignificant part I played in it seemed to
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  Speaker 2: me an easy affair. I proposed myself to return to
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  Speaker 2: the city to try my luck again on the morow
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  Speaker 2: with mister John, and if I could muster the necessary
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  Speaker 2: courage to question him about the singular gray man. Had
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  Speaker 2: I only had the good fortune to escape so well,
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  Speaker 2: I had already actually succeeded in stealing through the rosary,
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  Speaker 2: and in descending the hill, found myself on a piece
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  Speaker 2: of lawn, Fearing to be encounter and crossing the grass
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  Speaker 2: out of the path, I cast an inquiring glance around me.
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  Speaker 2: What was my terror to behold the man in the
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  Speaker 2: gray coat behind me and making towards me, And the
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  Speaker 2: next moment he took off his hat before me and
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  Speaker 2: bowed so low as no one had ever yet done
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  Speaker 2: to me. There was no doubt that he wished to
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  Speaker 2: address me, and without being rude, I could not prevent it.
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  Speaker 2: I also took off my hat, bowed also, and stood
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  Speaker 2: there in the sun with bare head, as if ruged
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  Speaker 2: to the ground. I stared at him full of terror,
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  Speaker 2: and was like a bird which the serpent has fascinated.
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  Speaker 2: He himself appeared very much embarrassed. He raised not his
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  Speaker 2: eyes again bowed repeatedly drew neor and addressing you with
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  Speaker 2: a soft, tremulous voice, almost in a tone of supplication.
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  Speaker 2: May I hope, sir, that you have parted my boldness
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  Speaker 2: and venturing in so unusual a manner to approach you,
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  Speaker 2: But I would ask a favor permits me most condescendingly.
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  Speaker 2: But alas exclaimed I, in my trepidation, what can I
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  Speaker 2: do for a man who we both started and, as
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  Speaker 2: I believe, reddened. After a moment's silence, he again resumed
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  Speaker 2: during the short time, that I have had the happiness
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  Speaker 2: to find myself near you. I have, sir, many times.
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  Speaker 2: Allow me to say it to you, really contemplated with
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  Speaker 2: inexpressible admiration, the beautiful, beautiful shadow, which, as it were,
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  Speaker 2: with a certain noble disdain, and without yourself remarking it,
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  Speaker 2: you cast from you in the sunshine, the noble shadow
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  Speaker 2: at your feet. There. Pardon me the bull supposition, but
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  Speaker 2: possibly you might not be indisposed to make this shadow
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  Speaker 2: over to me. I was silenced, and the mill whele
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: seemed to whirl round in my head. What was I
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to make of this singular proposition to sell my own shadow?
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  Speaker 2: He must be mad, thought I and with an altered
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: tone which was more assimilated to that of his own humility.
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  Speaker 2: I answered, thust Ah, good friend, had not you then
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  Speaker 2: enough of your own shadow? I take this for a
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: business of a very singular sort, he hastily interrupted me.
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  Speaker 2: I have many things in my pocket which sir, might
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  Speaker 2: not appear worth to you, And for this inestimable shadow,
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  Speaker 2: I hold the very highest price to you. Small. It
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: struck cold through me again, as I was reminded of
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  Speaker 2: the pocket. I knew not how I could have called
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  Speaker 2: him good friend. I resumed the conversation and sought, if possible,
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  Speaker 2: to set all right again by excessive politeness. But sir,
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  Speaker 2: pardon your most humble servants, I do not understand your meaning.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: How indeed could my shadow, he interrupted me. I beg
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: your permission, only here on the spot, to be allowed
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  Speaker 2: to take up this noble shadow and put it in
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  Speaker 2: my pocket. How else shall do that be my care?
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: On the other hand, as a testimony of my grateful
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: acknowledgment to you, I give you the choice of all
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: the treasures which I carry in my pocket. The genuine
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: spring root footnote. These are references to facts in the
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: popular tales of Germany. As for instant. The spring wurzel
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: or a spring root is found in the story of Rubezaal.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: And the galagan manlay or gallows man, were little figures
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: cut out of a root, said by the dealers in
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: such things in the Middle Ages to be actual mandrake
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  Speaker 2: roots growing in the shape at the foot of a
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  Speaker 2: gallows and footnote the man drake group, the change penny,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the rob dollar, the napkin of Roland's page, a man
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: drake man at your own price. But these probably don't
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: interest you. Rather, Fortuness's wishing cap kneeling and is deatly repaired.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: And a lucky bag such as you have, the luck
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: purse of Fortunatus, I exclaimed, interrupting him, and great as
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: my anxiety was. Without one word, he had taken my
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: whole mind captive. The dizziness seized me, and double ducats
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: seemed to glitter before my eyes. Honored sir, will you
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  Speaker 2: do me the favorite to view and to make trial
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  Speaker 2: of this purse. He thrust his hand into his pocket
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: and drew out a tolerably large, well stowed purse of
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: stout cordun leather with two strong shrinks, and handed it
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  Speaker 2: to me. I plunged my hand into it and drew
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: out ten gold pieces, and again ten, and again ten
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: and again ten. I extended him eagerly, my hands agreed.
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  Speaker 2: The business is done. For the purse, you have my shadow.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: He closed with me, kneeled instantly down before me, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: I beheld him with an admirable dexterity. Gently loosened my
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: shadow from top to toe from the grass, lifted up,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: rolled it together, fold it, and finally pocketed it. He arose,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: bade me another obiscience, and retreated towards the rosary. I
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: fancied that I heard him there softly laughing to himself.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: But I held the purse fast by the shrinks. All
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: around me laid the clear sunshine, and within me was
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: yet no power of reflection. End of chapter one. Recording
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  Speaker 2: by Ashleyam.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter two of The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemiel, The
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  Speaker 1: Man Who Lost his Shadow. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 1: by Mihai Borobocha, The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemiel, The
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Man Who Lost His Shadow by Adelbert von Chamisso, translated
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: by Frederick Henry Hedge, Chapter two, at length. I came
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to myself and hastened to quit the place where I
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: had nothing more to expect. In the first place, I
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: filled my pockets with gold. Then I secured the strings
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of the purse fast round my neck and concealed the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: itself in my bosom. I passed unobserved out of the park,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: reached the highway, and took the road to the city.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: As sunk in thought, I approached the gate, I heard
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a cry behind me, Young gentlemen, Eh, young gentlemen, hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I looked round. An old woman called after me, Do
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: take care, sir, you have lost your shadow. Thank you,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: good mother. I threw her a gold piece for her
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: well meant intelligence, and stopped under the trees at the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: city gate. I was compelled to hear again from the sentinel,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: where as the gentleman left his shadow, and immediately again
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: from some women alas the poor fellow has no shadow.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: That began to irritate me, and I became especially careful
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: not to walk in the sun. This could not, however,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: be accomplished everywhere. For instance, over the broad Street, which
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I next must approach. Actually, as mischief would have it,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: at the very moment that the boys came out of school,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a little rogue I see him, yet spied out instantly
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: that I had no shadow. He proclaimed the fact with
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a loud outcry to the whole assembled literary street youth
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: of the suburb, who began forthwith to criticize me and
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to pelt me with mud. Decent people are accustomed to
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: take their shadow with them when they go into the sunshine.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: To defend myself from them, I threw whole handfuls of
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: gold amongst them, and sprang into a Hackney coach, which
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: some compassionate soul procured for me. As soon as I
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: found myself alone in the rolling carriage, I began to
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: weep bitterly. The presentiment must already have arisen in me,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: that far as gold on earth transcends in estimate merrit
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and virtue, so much higher than gold itself is the
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: shadow valued. And as I had earlier sacrificed wealth to conscience,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I had now thrown away the shadow for mere gold.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: What in the world could and would become of me?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: I was again greatly annoyed, as the carriage stopped before
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: my old inn. I was horrified at the bare idea
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of entering that wretched loft. I ordered my things to
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: be brought down, received my miserable bundle with contempt, threw
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: down some gold pieces, and ordered the coachman to drive
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to the most fashionable hotel. The house faced the north,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and I had not the sun to fear. I dismissed
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the driver with gold, caused the best front rooms to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: be assigned me, and shut myself up in them as
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: quickly as I could. What thinkes thou? I now began, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my dear chamisso to confess it even to THEE makes
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: me blush. I drew the unlucky purse from my bosom,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and with a kind of desperation which like a rushing conflagration,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: grew in me with self increasing growth, I extracted gold
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and gold, and gold and even more gold, and strode
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  Speaker 1: it on the floor, and strode amongst it, and made
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: it ring again, and feeding my poor heart on the splendor,
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and the sound flung continually more metal to metal, till
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: in my weariness I sank down on the rich heap,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and rioting thereon, rolled and reveled amongst it so passed
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the day the evening I opened not my door. Night
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and day found me lying on my gold, and then
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: sleep overcame me. I dreamed of THEE. I seemed to
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: stand behind the glass door of thy little room, and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: to see THEE sitting there at thy work table, between
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a skeleton and a bundle of dried plants. Before THEE
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  Speaker 1: laid open Hollor Humboldt and Linnaeus on thy sofa, a
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: volumov Githe and the Magic Ring footnote a novel by
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  Speaker 1: Baron de la Motte fouqu and footnote. I regarded THEE
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  Speaker 1: long and everything in thy room, and then THEE again.
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  Speaker 1: Thou didst not move, Thou drewest no breath, Thou wert dead.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I awoke. It appeared still to be very early. My
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: watch had stopped. I was sore all over, thirsty and
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: hungry too. I had taken nothing since the evening before.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I pushed from me with loathing and indignation. The gold
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  Speaker 1: on which I had before seated my foolish heart. In
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: my vexation, I knew not what I should do with it.
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  Speaker 1: It must not lie there. I tried whether the purse
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: would swallow it again. But no, none of my windows
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: opened upon the sea. I found myself compelled laboriously to
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: drag it to a great cupboard, which stood in a cabinet,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: and there to pile it. I left only some handfuls
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: of it lying. When I had finished the work, I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: threw myself, exhausted into an easy chair, and waited for
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the stirring of the people in the house. As soon
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: as possible, I ordered food to be brought and the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: landlord to come to me. I fixed, in consultation with
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: this man the future arrangements of my house. He recommended
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: for the services about my person a certain Bendle, whose
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: honest and intelligent physiognomy immediately captivated me. He it was
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: whose attachment has since accompanied me consolingly through the wretchedness
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  Speaker 1: of life, and has helped me to support my gloomy lot.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I spent the whole day in my room among masterless servants, shoemakers, tailors,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and tradespeople. I fitted myself out and purchased besides a
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: great many jewels and valuables for the sake of getting
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  Speaker 1: rid of some of the vast heap of hoarded up gold.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: But it seemed to me as if it were impossible
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: to diminish it. In the meantime, I brooded over my
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: situation in the most stagonizing despair. I dared not venture
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  Speaker 1: a step out of my doors, and that evening I
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: caused forty wax rice to be lit in my room.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Before I issued from the shade, I thought with horror
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: on the terrible scene with the schoolboys. Yet I resolved
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: much courage, as it demanded once more to make a
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: trial of pub opinion. The nights were then moonlight. Late
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: in the evening, I threw on a white cloak, pressed
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: my hat over my eyes, and stole, trembling like a criminal,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: out of the house. I stepped first out of the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: shade in whose protection I had arrived there in a
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: remote square, into the full moonlight, determined to learn my
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: faith out of the mouths of the passers. By spare me,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: dear friend, the painful repetition of all that I had
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: to endure. The women often testified the deepest compassion with
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: which I inspired them, declarations which no less transpierced me
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: than the mockery of the youth and the proud contempt
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: of the men, especially of those fat, well fed fellows
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: who themselves cast a broad shadow. A lovely and sweet girl, who,
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  Speaker 1: as it seemed, accompanied her parents while they suspiciously only
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: looked before their feet turned by chance her flashing eyes
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: upon me. She was obviously terrified. She observed my want
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: of a shadow, let fall her veil over her beautiful countenance,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and dropping her head, passed in silence. I could bear
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: it no longer. Brimey streams started from my eyes and
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: cut to the heart. I staggered back into the shade.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: I was obliged to support myself against the houses, to
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: steady my steps, and wearily and late reached my dwelling.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I spent a sleepless night. The next morning, it was
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: my first care to have the man in the gray
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: coat everywhere sought after. Possibly I might succeed in finding
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: him again, And how joyful if he repented of the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: foolish bargain as high partly as I did. I ordered
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Bundle to come to me. He appeared to possess a
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: dress in tact. I described to him exactly the man
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: in whose possession lay a treasure without which my life
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: was only a misery. I told him the time, the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: place in which I had seen him. I described to
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  Speaker 1: him all who had been present, and added moreover this token.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: He should particularly inquire after a dollon's telescope, after a
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: gold interwoven Turkish carpet, after a splendid pleasure tent, and
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: finally after the black chargers, whose story we know not
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: how was connected with that of the mysterious man, who
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: seemed of no consideration amongst them, and whose appearance had
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: destroyed the quiet and happiness of my life. When I
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: had done speaking, I fetched out gold such a load
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: that I was scarcely able to carry it, and laid
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: upon it precious stones and jewels of a far greater value.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Pendle said, I these level many ways, and make easy
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  Speaker 1: many things which appeared quite impossible. Don't be stingy with it,
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  Speaker 1: as I am not, but go and rejoice thy master
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  Speaker 1: with the intelligence on which his only hope depends. He went.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: He returned late and sorrowful. None of the people of
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  Speaker 1: mister John, none of his guests, and he had spoken
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: with all, were able in the remotest degree to recollect
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: the man in the gray coat. The new telescope was there,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: and no one knew whence it had come. The carpet,
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: the tent, were still there, spread and pitched on the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: self same hill. The servants boasted of the affluence of
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: their master, and no one knew whence these same valuables
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: had come to him. He himself took his pleasure in them,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: and did not trouble himself, because he did not know
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  Speaker 1: whence he had them. The young gentleman had the horses
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  Speaker 1: which they had ridden in their stables, and they praised
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the liberality of mister John, who on that day made
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: them a present of them. Thus much was clear from
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  Speaker 1: the circumstantial relation of Bendel, whose active zeal and able proceeding.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Although with such Fruiter's result received from me their merited commendation,
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: I gloomily motioned him to leave me alone. I have
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: began he again given my master an account of the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: matter which was most important to him. I have yet
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: a message to deliver, which a person gave me, whom
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I met at the door as I went out on
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the business in which I have been so unfortunate. The
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  Speaker 1: very words of the man were these, tell mister Peter Schlemiel,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: he will not see me here again, as I am
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: going over sea, and a favorable wind calls me at
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: this moment to the harbor. But in a year and
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: a day I will have the honor to seek him myself,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: and then to propose to him another and probably to
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: him more agreeable transaction. Present my most humble compliments to him,
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  Speaker 1: and assure him of my thanks. I asked him who
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: he was, but he replied, your honor knew him already.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: What was the man's appearance? Cried I, filled with foreboding,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: and Pendell sketched me the man in the graycoat trait
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: by trade, word for word, as he had accurately described
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  Speaker 1: in his former relation, the man after whom he had inquired.
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  Speaker 1: Unhappy one, I exclaimed, wringing my hands, that was the
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: very man. And there fell, as it were, scales from
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: his eyes. Yes it was he, it was positively, cried
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: he in horror, and I, blind and imbecile wretch, have
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: not recognized him, have not recognized him, and have betrayed
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: my master. He broke out into violent weeping. Heaped the
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: bitterest reproaches on himself, and the despair in which he
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: was inspired even me with compassion. I spoke comfort to him,
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  Speaker 1: assured him repeatedly that I entertained not the slightest doubt
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: of his fidelity, and sent him instantly to the port,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: if possible to follow the traces of this singular man.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: But in the morning a great number of ships, which
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: the contrary winds had detained in the harbor, had run
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: out bound to different climbs and different shores, and the
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  Speaker 1: gray Man had vanished, as tracelessly as a dream. End
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  Speaker 1: of chapter two.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Chapter three of The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemil, The
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Man Who Lost His Shadow. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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• 40:58
  Speaker 2: by Ashley M. The Wonderful History of Peter Schlimeel The
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: Man Who Lost His Shadow by A. Delbert von chamisso
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  Speaker 2: translated by Frederick Henry Hedge, Chapter three of what avail
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: are wings? To him? Who was fast bound in iron fetters,
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: He is compelled only the more fearfully to despair. I lay,
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: like fastener by his treasure, very far from every consolation,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: suffering much in the midst of my gold. But my
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: heart was not in it. On the contrary, I cursed it,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: because I saw myself through it. Cut off from all life.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Brooding over my glooing secret alone, I trembled before the
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: meanest of my servants, whom, at the same time I
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: was forced to envy, for he had a shadow he
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: might show himself in the sun. I wore away days
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: and nights in solitary sorrow in my chamber, and anguished
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: not at my heart. There was another who pined away
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: before my eyes. My faithful bent never ceased to torture
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: himself with silent reproaches that he had betrayed the trust
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: reposed in him by his master, and had not recognized
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: him after whom he was despatched, and with whom he
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: must believe that my sorrowful fate was intimately interwoven. I
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: could not lay the fault to his charge. I recognized,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: in the event the mysterious nature of the unknown, that
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: I might leave nothing untried. I one time sent Bendel
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: with a valuable, brilliant ring to the most celebrated painter
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: of the city, and begged that he would pay me
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: a visit. He came. I ordered my people to retire,
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: closed the door, seated myself by the man, and after
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: I had praised his art, I came with a heavy
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  Speaker 2: heart to the business, causing him before that to promise
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  Speaker 2: the strictest secrecy. Mister Professor said, I could not you
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: think you paint a false shadow for one who, by
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: the most unlucky chance in the world, has become deprived
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: of his own You mean a personal shadow? That is
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: precisely my meaning, But continued he through what awkwardness, through
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: what negligence? Could he then lose his proper shadow? How
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: it happened, replied I is now of very little consequence.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: But thus far, I may say, added I lying shamelessly
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: to him and Russia. Whither he made a journey last winter,
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  Speaker 2: and in an extraordinary cold, his shadow froze so fast
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: to the ground that he could, by no means lucid again.
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  Speaker 2: The false shadow that I could paint him, replied the Professor,
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: would only be such a one as by the slightest
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: agitation he might lose again, especially a person who, as appears,
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: by your relation, has so little adhesion to his own
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: native shadow. He who has no shadow, Let him keep
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: out of the sunshine. That is the safest and most
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: sensible thing for him. He arose and withdrew, asking at
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: me a transpiercing glance which mine could not support. I
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: sank back in my seat and covered my face with
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: my hands. Thus Bendal found me. As he at length entered.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: He saw the grief of his master, and was desirous,
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: silently and reverently to withdraw. I looked up. I lay
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  Speaker 2: under the burden of my trouble. I must communicate it, Bendel,
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  Speaker 2: cried I, Bendel, Thou only one who seest my affliction
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  Speaker 2: and respectest it. Seekest not to pry into it, but appearest,
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  Speaker 2: silently and kindly to sympathize. Come to me, Bendel, and
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  Speaker 2: be the nearest to my heart. I have not locked
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  Speaker 2: from THEE the treasure of my gold, neither will I
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  Speaker 2: lock from THEE the treasure of my grief. Bendel, forsake
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  Speaker 2: me not, Bendel, Thou beholdest me rich liberal kind, the
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  Speaker 2: maschiness that the world ought to honor me, And thou
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  Speaker 2: seest me fly the world and hide myself from it. Bendel,
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  Speaker 2: the world has passed judgment and cast me from it.
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  Speaker 2: And perhaps thou too wilt turn for me, and thou
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  Speaker 2: knowest my fearful secret. Bendel, I am rich, liberal kind,
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  Speaker 2: but alas I have no shadow, no shadow, cried the
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  Speaker 2: good youth from horror, and the bright tears gushed from
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  Speaker 2: his eyes. Oh it's me that I was born to
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  Speaker 2: serve a shadowless master. He was silent, and I held
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  Speaker 2: my face buried in my hands. Bendel added I at length, tremblingly.
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  Speaker 2: Now hast thou my confidence? And now canst thou betray it?
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  Speaker 2: Go forth and testify against me. He appeared to be
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: in a heavy conflict with himself. At length, he flung
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  Speaker 2: himself before me and seized my hand, which he bathed
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  Speaker 2: with his tears. No, exclaimed he think the world as
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  Speaker 2: it will. I could not and will not on accounts
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  Speaker 2: of a shadow abandoned my kind master. I will act
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: and not with policy. I will continue with you. Then,
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: do my shadow help you when I can and I
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  Speaker 2: cannot weak with you. I fell on his neck, astonished
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  Speaker 2: at such unusual sentiment, where I was convinced that he
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  Speaker 2: did it not for gold. From that time, my fate
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: and my mode of life were in some degree change.
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  Speaker 2: It is indescribable how much Bendal continued to conceal my defect.
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  Speaker 2: He was everywhere before me and with me, foreseeing everything,
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: hitting on contrivances, and were danger threatened, covering me quickly
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  Speaker 2: with a shadow, since he was taller and bulkier than I.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: Thus I ventured myself again among men. I began to
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: play a part in the world. I was obliged, it
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: is true, to assume many peculiarities and humors, but such
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: became the rich, And so long as the Jew continued
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  Speaker 2: to be concealed, I enjoyed all the honor and respect
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  Speaker 2: which were paid to my wealth. I looked calmly forward
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  Speaker 2: to the promised visit of the mysterious Unknown at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the year, and the day I felt, indeed
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  Speaker 2: that I must not remain longer in a place where
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  Speaker 2: I had once been seen without a shadow, and where
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  Speaker 2: I might easily be betrayed. Perhaps I yet thought too
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  Speaker 2: much of the manner in which I had introduced myself
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  Speaker 2: to Thomas John, and it was a mortifying recollection. I
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: would therefore hear merely make an experiment to present myself
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  Speaker 2: with more ease and confidence elsewhere. But that now occurred
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  Speaker 2: which held me a long time riveted to my vanity,
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: For there it is in the man that the anchor
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: bites the firmest ground. Even the lovely Fanny, whom I
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: in this place again encountered, honored me with some notice,
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  Speaker 2: without recollecting ever to have seen me before. For I
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: now had wit and sense. As I spoke, people listened,
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: and I could not, for the life of me comprehend
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: myself how I had arrived at the art of maintaining
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: and engrossing so easily the conversation. But why relate to
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  Speaker 2: thee the whole long, ordinary story Thou thyself hast often
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: related it to me, of other honorable people, to the
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  Speaker 2: old well known play in which I good naturedly undertook
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  Speaker 2: a worn out part. There came in true to her
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: and me and everybody, unexpectedly, a most peculiar and poetic catastrophe,
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  Speaker 2: As according to my wont I assembled on a beautiful
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: evening a party in the garden. I wadered with the
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: lady arm in arm, at some distance from the other guests,
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: and exerted myself to strike out pretty speeches for her.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: She modestly cast down her eyes and gently returned the
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: pressure of my hands. When suddenly the moon broke through
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: the clouds behind me, and she saw only her own
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: shadow thrown forward before her. She started and glanced wildly
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: at me, then again on the earth, seeking my shadow
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: with her eyes, and what passed with him. Her painted
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: itself so singularly on a countenance that I should have
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: burst into a loud laugh if it had not itself
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  Speaker 2: run ice cold over my back. I let her fall
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  Speaker 2: from my arms in a swoon, shot like an arrow
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: through the terrified guests, reached the door, flung myself into
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: the first sheise which I saw on the stand, and
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: drove back to the city, where, this time, to my cost,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: I had left the circumspect Bendel. He was terrified as
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  Speaker 2: he saw me. One word revealed to him. All post
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  Speaker 2: horses were immediately fetched. I took only one of my
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: people with me, an Aeron's knave called Rascal, who had
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: contrived to make himself necessary to me by his cleverness,
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: and who could suspect nothing of the present occurrence. That night,
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: I left upwards of one hundred miles behind me. Bendel
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: remained behind me to discharge my establishment, to pay money,
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: and to bring me what I most required. When he
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: overtook me next day, I threw myself into his arms
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: and swore to him never again to run into the
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: like folly, but in future, to be more cautious, we
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: continued our journey without pause over the frontiers and the mountains.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: And it was not too what began to descend and
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: placed those lofty bulwarks between us and our former, unlucky abode,
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  Speaker 2: that I allowed myself to be persuaded to rest from
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  Speaker 2: the fatigues I had undergone in a neighboring a little
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  Speaker 2: frequented bathing place. End of chapter three. Recording by Ashley M.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter four of The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemiel, The
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  Speaker 2: Man Who Lost his Shadow. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: by Ashley M. The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemiel, The
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  Speaker 2: Man Who Lost His Shadow by A. Delbert von Chamisso
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  Speaker 2: translated by Frederick Henry Hedge, Chapter four. But note this
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  Speaker 2: chapter presents a vivid illustration of a histrionic decease with
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  Speaker 2: which human life abounds. It shows how often, amidst the
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  Speaker 2: obscurity and elusive complications of this world, men both voluntarily
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  Speaker 2: and involuntarily play parts which do not belong to them. Continually,
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  Speaker 2: persons are not seen to be what they are, but
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  Speaker 2: are believed to be what they are not. Meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 2: supreme victory and blessedness of man are really to be
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  Speaker 2: what he ought to be, seem to others to be
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  Speaker 2: what he is, and be treated accordingly by all end Footnote.
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  Speaker 2: I must pass in my relation hastily over a time
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: in which, how gladly would I linger? Could I but
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: conjure up the living spirit of it with the recollection?
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: But the color which vivified it, and which only can
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: vivify it again, is extinguished in me. And when I
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: seek in my bosom, what then so mightily animated it?
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: The grief and the joy, the innocent illusion? Then do
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  Speaker 2: I vainly smite a rock in which no living spring
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: now dwells, For the God is departed from me? How
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  Speaker 2: change does this pastime now appear to me? I would
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  Speaker 2: act in the watering place, and arow a character ill studied,
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  Speaker 2: and myself a novice on the boards, and my gaze
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  Speaker 2: lured from my part by a pair of blue eyes.
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  Speaker 2: The parents, diluted by the play, offer everything only to
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  Speaker 2: make the business quickly secure and the poor farce closes
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: in mockery, And that is all all that presents itself
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: now to me, so absurd in commonplace, although it is
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  Speaker 2: terrible that that can thus appear to me, which then
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  Speaker 2: so richly, so luxuriantly swelled my bosom mina. As I
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: wept at losing thee, so weep I still to have
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: lost thee also in myself? Am I then become so old?
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Oh melancholy reason, Oh, but for one pulsation of that time,
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: one moment of that illusion. But no alone on the
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  Speaker 2: high waist sea of thy bitter flood, and long out
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: of the last cup of wine, the elfin has vanished.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: I had sent forward Bendel with some purses of gold
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: to procure for me a dwelling adapted to my needs.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: He had then scattered about much money and expressed himself
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: somewhat indefinitely, respecting the distinguished stranger whom he served for
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: I would not be named, and that filled the good
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: people with extraordinary fancies. As soon as my house was ready,
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  Speaker 2: Bendal returned to conduct me thither. We set out about
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: three miles from the place, on a sunny plain. Our
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: progress was obstructed by a gay festal throng, the carriage stopped. Music,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: sound of bells discharge of cannon were heard aloud vivat
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: rent the air. Before the door of the carriage appeared,
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: clad and white, a troof of damsels of extraordinary beauty,
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: but who were eclipsed by one in particular, as the
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  Speaker 2: stars of night by the sun. She stepped forth from
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  Speaker 2: the midst of her sisters. The tall and della delicate
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  Speaker 2: figure kneeled blushing before me, and presented to me on
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  Speaker 2: a silken cushion a garland woven of laurel, olive branches
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  Speaker 2: and roses. While she uttered some words about majesty, veneration,
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  Speaker 2: and love, which I did not understand, but whose bewitching
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  Speaker 2: silver tone intoxicated my ears and heart. It seemed as
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  Speaker 2: if the heavenly apparition had some time already passed before me.
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: The chorus struck in and sung the praises of a
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  Speaker 2: good king and the happiness of his people. And this scene,
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: my dear friend, in the face of the sun. She
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: kneeled still only two paces from me, and I without
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  Speaker 2: a shadow, could not spring over the gulf, could not
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: also fall on the knee before the angel. Oh, what
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: would I then have given for a shadow. I was
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: compelled to hide my shame, my anguish, my despair, deep
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: in the bottom of my carriage. At length, bendel recollected
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: himself on my behalf. He leaped out of the carriage
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  Speaker 2: on the other side. I called him back and gave
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  Speaker 2: him out my jewel cas which lay at hand, a
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  Speaker 2: splendid diamond crown, which had been made to adorn the
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  Speaker 2: brows of the lovely fanny. He stepped forward and spoke
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  Speaker 2: in the name of his master, who could not and
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  Speaker 2: would not receive such tokens of homage. There must be
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  Speaker 2: some mistake, and the good people of the city were
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  Speaker 2: thanked for their good will. As he said this, he
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  Speaker 2: took up the proffered wreath and laid the brilliant coronet
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  Speaker 2: in his place. He then extended respectfully his hand to
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  Speaker 2: the lovely maiden that she might arise, and dismissed with
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  Speaker 2: a sign clergy, magistrates, and all the deputations. No one
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  Speaker 2: else was allowed to approach. He ordered the throng to
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  Speaker 2: divide and make way for the horses. Sprang again into
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  Speaker 2: the carriage, and on we went, at full gallop through
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  Speaker 2: a festive archery of foliage and flowers towards the city.
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: The dischargers of cannon continued. The carriage stopped before my house.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: I sprang hastily in at the door, dividing the crowd
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: which the desire to see me had collected. The mob
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: huraud on under my window, and I let double ducats
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  Speaker 2: rain out of it. In the evening, the city was
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: voluntarily illuminated. And yet I did not know at all
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  Speaker 2: what all this could mean, and who I was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be. I sent out Rascal to make inquiry. He
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: brought word to this effect that the people had received
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: certain intelligence that the good King of Prussia traveled through
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  Speaker 2: the country under the name of a graph, that my
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  Speaker 2: adjuntant had been recognized. And finally, how great the joy
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: was as they became certain that they really had me
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  Speaker 2: in the place. They now saw clearly that I evidently
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: desired to maintain the strictest incognito. And how very wrong
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: it had been to attempt so importantly to lift the veil.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: But I'd resented it so graciously, so kindly I should
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: certainly pardon their good heartedness. The thing appeared so amusing
• 56:50
  Speaker 2: to the rogue that he did his best by reproving words,
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: the more to strengthen the good folk in their belief.
• 56:57
  Speaker 2: He made a very comical recital of all this, and
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: as he found that it diverted me, he made a
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: joke to me of his own additional wickedness. Shall I
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  Speaker 2: confess it? It flattered me even by such means to
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  Speaker 2: be taken for that honored head. I commanded a feast
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  Speaker 2: to be prepared for the evening of the next day,
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  Speaker 2: beneath the trees which overshadowed the open space before my house,
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  Speaker 2: and the whole city to be invited to it. The
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  Speaker 2: mysterious power of my purse, the exertions of Bendel, and
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: the active invention of Rascal, succeeded in triumphing over time itself.
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  Speaker 2: It is really astonishing how richly and beautifully everything was
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  Speaker 2: arranged in those few hours. The splendor and abundance which
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  Speaker 2: exhibited themselves, and the ingenious lighting up so admirably contrived
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  Speaker 2: that I felt myself quite secure, left me nothing to desire.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: I could not but praise my servants. The evening grew dark,
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: the guests appeared and were presented to me. Nothing more
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  Speaker 2: was said about majesty. I was styled with deep reverence
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: and opening, since her grof what was to be done?
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: I allowed the her grofs please, and remained from that
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: hour the Graf Peter, in the midst of festive multitudes,
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: my soul yearned alone. After one she entered late. She
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: was and wore the crown. She followed modestly her parents,
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: and seemed not to know that she was the loveliest
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  Speaker 2: of all. They were presented to me as mister Forrest's master,
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: his lady, and their daughter. I found many agreeable and
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: obliging things to say to the old people. Before the daughter,
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: I stood like a rebuked boy and could not bring
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  Speaker 2: out one word. I begged her at length, with a
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  Speaker 2: faltering tone, to honor this feast by assuming the office
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: whose insignia she graced. She entreated, with blushes and a
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: moving look to be excused, but blushing still more than herself.
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  Speaker 2: In her presence, I paid her as her first subject
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  Speaker 2: my homage with a most profound respect, and the hints
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  Speaker 2: of the Graf became to all the guests a command
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  Speaker 2: which every one, with emulous joy hastened to obey. Majesty, innocence,
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  Speaker 2: and grace presided in alliance with beauty over a rapturous feast.
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  Speaker 2: Mina's happy parents believe their child only thus exalted in
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: honor of them. I myself was an indescribable intoxication. I
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  Speaker 2: caused all the jewels which yet remained of those which
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  Speaker 2: I had formerly purchased, in order to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: burdensome gold, all the pearls, all the precious stones to
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  Speaker 2: be laid in two covered dishes and at the table
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  Speaker 2: in the name of the Queen, to be distributed round
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  Speaker 2: to her companions and to all the ladies. Gold in
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: the meantime was incessantly strewn over the enclosing lists among
• 59:39
  Speaker 2: the exulting people. Bendel the next morning revealed to me
• 59:44
  Speaker 2: in confidence that the suspicion which he had long entertained
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: of Rascal's honesty was now become certainty that he had
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  Speaker 2: yesterday embezzled whole purses of gold. Let us permit, replied I,
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  Speaker 2: the poor scoundrel to enjoy the petty plunder I spend
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  Speaker 2: willingly on everybody, Why not on him? Yesterday? He and
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  Speaker 2: all the fresh people you have brought me served me honestly.
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  Speaker 2: They helped me joyfully to celebrate a joyful feast. There
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  Speaker 2: was no further mention of it. Rascal remained the first
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  Speaker 2: of my servants, but Bendel was my friend and my
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  Speaker 2: confide in. The latter was accustomed to regard my wealth
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  Speaker 2: as inexhaustible, and he pried not after its sources, entering
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  Speaker 2: into my humor. He assisted me rather to discover opportunities
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  Speaker 2: to exercise it, and to spend my gold of that
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: unknown one, that pale snake. He knew only this, that
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: I could alone, through him, be absolved from the curse
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  Speaker 2: which waited on me, and that I feared him, on
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: whom my sole hope reposed that for the rest I
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: was convinced that he could discover me anywhere I him nowhere,
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  Speaker 2: and that, therefore, awaiting the promised day, I abandoned every
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: vrain inquiry. The magnificence of my feast and my behavior
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 2: at it held at first the credulous inhabitants of the
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  Speaker 2: city firmly to their preconceived opinion. True, it was soon
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: stated in the newspapers that the whole story of the
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: journey of the King of Prussia had been a mere
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: groundless rumor. But a king I now was, and must
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  Speaker 2: in spite of everything, a king remain and truly one
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  Speaker 2: of the most rich and royal who had ever existed.
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  Speaker 2: Only people did not rightly know what king. The world
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: had never had reason to complain of the scarcity of monarchs,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: at least in our time. The good people, who had
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: never seen any of them, hissed with equal correctness, first
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: on one and then on another. Gruff Peter still remained
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: who he was. At one time appeared amongst the guests
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: at a bath, a tradesman who had made himself bankrupt
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: in order to enrich himself, and who enjoyed universal esteem
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: and had a broad, though somewhat pale shadow. The property
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: which he had scraped together he resolved to lay out
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: in ostentation, and it even occurred to him to enter
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  Speaker 2: into rivalry with me. I had recourse to my purse,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: and seen brought the poor fellow to such a pass that,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: in order to save his credit, he was obliged to
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: become bankrupt a second time and hasten over the frontier.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: Thus I got rid of him. In this neighborhood, I
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: made many idlers and good for nothing fellows. With all
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: the royal splendor and expenditure by which I may all
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: succumb to me. I still in my own house, lived
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: very simply and retired. I had established the strictest circumspection.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: As a rule, no one except Bendel, under any pretense whatever,
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  Speaker 2: was allowed to enter the rooms which I inhabited. So
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: long as the sun shone, I kept myself shut up there.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: And it was said the grap is employed in his cabinet.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: With this employment, numerous couriers stood in connection whom I
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  Speaker 2: for every trifle sent out and received, I received company
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  Speaker 2: only under my trees or in my hall, arranged and
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: lighted according to Bendel's plan. When I went out, on
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  Speaker 2: which occasions it was necessary that I should be constantly
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: watched by the artists of Bendel, It was only to
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  Speaker 2: the forester's garden for the sake of one alone. For
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: my love was the innermost heart of my life. Oh,
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 2: my good cham So I will hope that thou hast
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 2: not yet forgotten what love is. Mina was really an amiable, kind,
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: good child. I had taken her whole imagination captive. She
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: could not, in her humility, conceive how she could be
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  Speaker 2: worthy that I should have fixed my regard on her alone.
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  Speaker 2: As she returned my love with all the youthful power
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: of an innocent's heart. She loved like a woman, offering
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: herself wholly up self forgetting, living, holly, and solely for
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: him who was her life. But I, oh, what terrible hours,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: terrible and yet worthy that I should wish them back again?
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 2: Have I often wept on Bendle's bosom, when after the
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: first unconscious intoxication I recollected myself, looked sharply into myself,
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: I without a shadow, with knavish selfishness, destroying this angel,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: this pure soul. Then I did resolve to reveal myself
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  Speaker 2: to her. Then did I swear to tear myself from
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: her and to fly. Then did I burst out into
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: tears and concert with Bendel how in the evening I
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: should visit her in the forester's garden. At other times
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: I flattered myself with great expectations from the rapidly approaching
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 2: visit from the gray Man. I wept again when I had,
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: in vain tried to believe in it. I had calculated
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: the day on which I expected again to see the
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: fearful One, For he had said in a year and
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: a day, and I believed his word. The parents, good,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: honorable old people who loved their only child extremely were
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: amazed and knew not what to do. Earlier, they could
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: not have believed that the groff Peter could think only
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: of their child. But now he really loved her and
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: was beloved again. The mother was probably vain enough to
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: believe in the probability of a marriage and to seek
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: for it. The sound masculine understanding of the father did
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: not give way to such overstretched imaginations. Both were persuaded
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: of the purity of my love. They could do nothing
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: more than pray for their child. I have laid my
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: hand on a lighter Fromina of this state, which I
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: still retain. Yes, this is her own writing. I transcribe
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: it for thee thou canst imagine how the words must
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 2: cut through my heart. I explained to her that I
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: was not what people believed me, that I was only
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: a rich but infinitely miserable man, That a curse rested
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: on me, which must be the only secret between us,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: since I was not yet without hope, that it should
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: be loosed, that this was the poison of my days,
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: that I might drag her down with me into the gulf.
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  Speaker 2: She who was the sole light, the sole happiness, the
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  Speaker 2: sole heart of my life. Then wept she again because
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: I was unhappy. Ah, she was so loving, so kind
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: to spare me. But once here she and with what transport,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: would have sacrificed herself without reserve. In the meantime, she
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: was far from rightly comprehending my words. She conceived in
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: me some prince on whom had fallen a heavy band,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: some high and honored head, and her imagination, amidst heroic pictures,
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: limmed forth her lover gloriously. Once I said to her, Mina,
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: the last day in the next month may change my
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: fate and decide it. If not, I must die, or
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: I will not make thee unhappy. Weeping, she hid her
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  Speaker 2: head in my bosom. If thy fortune changes, let me
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: know that thou art happy. I have no claim on
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: thee art thou wretched by me to thy wretchedness, and
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: I may help thee to bear it. Maiden, Maiden, take
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: it back that word, that foolish word which escaped thy lips.
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  Speaker 2: And knowest thou this wretchedness, knowest thou this curse, knowest
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: who thy love? What he seest thou not that I
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: convulsively shrink together and have a secret from thee. She
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: fell sobbing to my feet, and repeated with tears her entreaty.
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 2: I announce to the forest master, who entered, that it
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: was my intention, on the first approaching of the month,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: to solicit the hand of his daughter. I fixed precisely
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: this time, because in the interim many things might occur
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: which might influence my fortunes. That I was unchangeable in
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: my love to his daughter. The good man was quite
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: startled as he heard such words out of the mouth
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: of Gruffpeter. He fell on my neck and again became
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: quite ashamed to have thus forgotten himself. Then he began
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: to doubt, to weigh, and to inquire. He spoke of dowry,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: security and the fortune for his beloved child. I thanked
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: him for reminding me of these things. I told him
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: that I desired to settle myself in this country where
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: I seemed to be beloved, and to lead a care
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 2: free life. I begged him to purchase the finest estate
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: that his daughter had to offer in the name of
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 2: his daughter, and to charge the cost to me. A
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  Speaker 2: father could in such matter best serve a lover. It
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: gave him enough to do for everywhere a stranger was
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: before him, and he could only purchased for about a
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: million my Thus employing him was at the bottom an
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: instant scheme to remove him to a distance. And I
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: had employed him similarly before, for I must confess that
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: he was rather wearisome. The good Mother was, on the contrary,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: somewhat deaf and not like him. Jealous of the honor
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: of entertaining the groff, the Mother joined us. The happy
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 2: people pressed me to stay longer with them. That evening,
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: I dared not remain another minute. I saw already the
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: rising moon glimmer on the horizon. My time was up.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: The next evening I went again to the forester's garden.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 2: I had thrown my cloak over my shoulders and pulled
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: my hat over my eyes. I advanced to Mina. As
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: she looked up and beheld me, she gave an involuntary start,
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 2: and there stood again, clear before my soul, the apparition
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: of that terrible night when I showed myself in the
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: moonlight without a shadow, It was actually she, But had
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 2: she also recognized me? She was silent and thoughtful. On
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: my bosom lay a hundred weight pressure. I arose from
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: my seat. She threw herself silently weeping on my bosom
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: I went. I now found her often in tears. It
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: grew darker and darker in my soul. The parents meanwhile
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: swam in supreme felicity. The eventful day passed on, sad
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 2: and sullen as a thundercloud. The eve of the day
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: was come. I could scarcely breathe. I had, in precaution,
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: filled several chests with gold. I watched the midnight hour approach.
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: It struck. I now sat my eye faced on the
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: fingers of the clock, counting the minutes, the seconds, like
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: dagger strokes at every noise which arose. I started. The
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: day broke, the leaden hours crowded upon each other. It
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 2: was noon, evening night. As the clock fingers sped on,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: hope withered. It struck eleven, and nothing appeared. The last
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: minutes of the last hour fell, and nothing appeared. It
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: struck the first stroke, the last stroke of the twelve hour,
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 2: and I sank, hopeless and in boundless years upon my bed.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: The morrow I should forever shadowless, solicit the hand of
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 2: my beloved. Towards morning, an anxiously pressed down my eyelids.
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  Speaker 2: End of Chapter four recording by Ashley m.
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  Speaker 3: The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemil, The Man Who Lost
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 3: to Shadow. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 3: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Meghan Lamb. The
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  Speaker 3: Wonderful History of Peter Schlemil, The Man Who Lost his
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  Speaker 3: Shadow by A. Delbert von Chamisso translated by Frederick Henry Hedge,
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  Speaker 3: Chapter five footnote. This chapter, with the three succeeding ones,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 3: is occupied in working out in a strikingly original way,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 3: the mythical doctrine so common in the folklore of the
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 3: Middle Age, of the sale of the soul to the
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 3: devil in return for riches and pleasure. It is a
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: new variation of the faust legend. The mysterious man in
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 3: the gray coat is a companion character to the Mephistopheles
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 3: of Gerte, and the victim, after the disastrous failure of
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 3: his experiment and his desperate repudiation of the compact, becomes
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: a powerfully reminiscent fantasia of the Wandering Jew. The shadow
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 3: of Schlemil is the symbol of his immortal soul. According
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: to the immemorial beliefs of the early world, as evidenced
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 3: in language by the Adolin of the Greeks and the
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 3: Umra of the Romans, and the synonyms shade and ghost
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: in English. In his development of the story, Channiso treats
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 3: these notions with an exquisite combination of wit and humor,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 3: dialectic skill, and literary felicity, which the reader will do
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: well to study carefully. And a footnote. It was still
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: early morning when voices which were raised in my antechamber
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 3: in violent dispute, awoke me. I listened Bendel forbade entrance.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: Rascal swore high and hotly that he would receive no
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: commands from his fellow, and insisted in forcing his way
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 3: into my room. The good Bendel warned him that such
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 3: words came they to my ear, would turn him out
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: of his most advantageous service. Rascal threatened to lay hands
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: on him if he any longer obstructed his entrance. I
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 3: had half dressed myself. I flung the door wrathfully open
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 3: and advanced to Rascal, What wantest thou villain? He stepped
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 3: two strides backwards and replied, quite coolly, to request you
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 3: most humbly her graph, just to allow me to see
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 3: your shadow. The sun shines at this moment so beautifully.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 3: In the court was struck as if with thunder. It
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 3: was some time before I could recover my speech. How
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: can a servant towards his master? He interrupted, very calmly
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 3: my speech. A servant may be a very honorable man
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 3: and not be willing to serve a shadowless master. I
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 3: demand my discharge. It was necessary to try other cords.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 3: But honest, dear rascal, who has put the unlucky idea
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 3: into your head? How canst thou believe? He proceeded in
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 3: the same tone. People will assert that you have no shadow,
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 3: And in short, you show me your shadow or give
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: my discharge. Bendel, pale and trembling, but more discreet than I,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 3: gave me a sign. I sought refuge in the all
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 3: silencing gold, and that had lost its power. He threw
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 3: it at my feet from a shadowless man. I accept nothing.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 3: He turned his back upon me and went most deliberately
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: out of the room, with his hat upon his head
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: and whistling a tune. I stood there with Bendel as
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 3: one turned to stone, thoughtless, motionless, gazing after him heavily sighing,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: and with death in my heart, I prepared myself to
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 3: redeem my promise, and, like a criminal before his judge,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: to appear in the forest Master's garden. I lighted in
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 3: the dark arbor, which was named after me, and where
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 3: they would be sure also at this time to await me.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 3: The mother met me carefree and joyous. Mina sat there,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 3: pale and lovely as the first snow, which often in
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 3: the autumn, kisses the last flowers and then instantly dissolves
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 3: into bitter water. The forest Master went agitatedly to and
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 3: fro a written paper in his hand, and appeared to
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 3: force down many things in himself, which painted themselves with
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 3: rapidly alternating flushes and paleness on his otherwise immovable countenance.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 3: He came up to me as I entered, and with
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 3: frequently choked words, begged to speak with me alone. The
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 3: path in which he invited me to follow him conducted
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: towards an open, sunny part of the garden. I sank
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: speechless on a seat, and then followed a long silence
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 3: which even the good mother dared not interrupt. The force
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 3: master raged continually with unequal steps to and fro in
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 3: the arbor, and suddenly, halting before me, glanced on the
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 3: paper which he held, and demanded of me with a
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 3: searching look, may not hergraf, a certain Peter Schlemil be
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 3: not quite unknown to you? I was silent, a man
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: of superior character and singular attainments. He paused for an answer,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 3: and suppose I were the same man who added, he
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 3: vehemently has by some means lost his shadow. Oh, my foreboding,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 3: My foreboding, exclaimed Mina. Yes, I have long known it.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: He has no shadow. And she flung herself into the
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 3: arms of her mother, who terrified clasped her convulsively, and
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 3: upbraided her that to her own hurt, she had kept
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: herself to such a secret. But she, like Arethusa, was
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 3: changed into a fountain of tears, which, at the sound
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 3: of my voice flowed still more copiously, and at my approach,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 3: burst forth in torrents. And you again grimly began the
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: forest master. And you, with unparalleled impudence, have made no
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 3: scruple to deceive these and myself. And you give out
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 3: that you love her whom you have so deeply humbled.
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: See there, how she weeps and rides, Oh horrible, horrible.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 3: I had to such a degree lost all reflection that,
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: talking like one crazed, I began, And after all, a
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 3: shadow is nothing but a shadow. One can do very
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 3: well without that, and it is not worth while to
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: make such a riot about it. But I felt so
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 3: sharply the baselessness of what I was saying, that I
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 3: stopped of myself without his daining me an answer. And
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 3: I then added, what one has lost at one time
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: may be found again at another. He rushed fiercely towards me.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: Confess to me, sir, confess to me, how became you
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: deprived of your shadow? I was compelled again to lie.
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: A rude fellow one day trod so heavily on my
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 3: shadow that he rent a great hole in it. I
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: have only sent it to be mended, for money can
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 3: do much, and I was to have received it back yesterday. Good, sir,
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 3: very good, replied the forest master. You so lessen my
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 3: daughter's hand. Others do the same. I have as her
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 3: father to care for her. I give you three days
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 3: in which you may see after a shadow. If you
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 3: appear before me within these three days with a good,
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 3: well fitting shadow, you shall be welcome to me. But
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 3: on the fourth day, I tell you plainly, my daughter
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 3: is the wife of another. I would yet attempt to
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 3: speak a word to Mina, but she clung sobbing violently,
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 3: only closer to her mother's breast, who motioned me to
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 3: be silent and to withdraw. I reeled away, and the
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: world seemed to close itself behind me. Escaped from Bendel's
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 3: affectionate oversight, I traversed in air and coarse woods and fields.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: The perspiration of my agony dripped from my brow. A
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 3: hollow groaning convulsed my bosom. Madness raged within me. I
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: know not how long this had continued. When on a
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: sunny heath, I felt myself plucked by the sleeve. I
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 3: stood still and looked round. It was the man in
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: the gray coat, who seemed to have run himself quite
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 3: out of breath in pursuit of me. He immediately began.
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 3: I had announced myself for today, but you cannot wait
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 3: the time. There is nothing amiss, however, yet you consider
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: the matter, receive your shadow again in exchange, which is
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 3: at your service, and turn immediately back. You shall be
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 3: welcome in the forest master's garden. The whole has been
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: only a joke, rascal, who has betrayed you, and who
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: seeks the hand of your bride, I will take charge
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 3: of the fellow is Ripe. I stood there, as still asleep,
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 3: announced for to day. I counted over again the time
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 3: he was right. I had constantly miscalculated a day. I
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: saw it with the right hand in my bosom for
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 3: my purse. He guessed my meeting and stepped two paces backwards. No,
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 3: her Graf, that is in two good hands, keep you that.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: I stared at him with eyes of inquiring wonder, and
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 3: he proceeded. I request only a trifle as memento. You
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: be so good as to set your name to this paper.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: On the parchment stood the words, by virtue of this signature,
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 3: I make over my soul to the holder of this
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 3: after its natural separation from the body. I gazed with
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: speechless amazement, alternately at the writing and the gray unknown. Meanwhile,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 3: with the new made pen, he had taken up a
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 3: drop of blood which flowed from a fresh thorn scratch
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 3: on my hand, and presented it to me. Who are you? Then?
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 3: At length I asked him what signifies it? He replied,
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: and is not that plain enough to be seen in me?
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 3: A poor devil, a sort of learned man and doctor, who,
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 3: in return for precious arts, receives from his friend's poor thanks,
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 3: and for himself has no other amusement on earth but
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 3: to make his little experiments. But however, sign to the
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 3: right there, Peter Schlemil. I shook my head and said,
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 3: pardon me, sir, I do not sign that. Not, he replied,
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 3: in a maze. And why not? It seems to me
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 3: a certain degree serious to stake my soul on a shadow.
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 3: So so he repeated, he serious, And he laughed almost
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 3: in my face. And if I might venture to ask,
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 3: what sort of a thing is that soul of yours?
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 3: Have you seen it? And what do you think of
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 3: doing with it? When you are dead? Be glad that
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 3: you have found an amateur who, in your lifetime is
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 3: willing to pay you for the bequest of this act
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 3: of his galvanic power or polarized activity, or whatever this
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 3: silly thing may be, with something actual, that is to say,
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 3: with your real shadow, through which you may arrive at
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 3: the hand of your beloved and at the accomplishments of
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 3: all your desires. Will you rather push forth and deliver
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 3: up that poor young creature to that low bred scoundrel rascal. No,
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 3: you must witness that with your own eyes. Here I
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 3: lend you the tarn cap, the cap of invisibility. He
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 3: drew it from his pocket, and we will proceed unseen
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 3: to the forester's garden. I must confess that I was
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 3: excessively ashamed of being ridiculed by this man. I detested
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  Speaker 3: him from the bottom of my heart, and I believe
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  Speaker 3: that this personal antipathy withheld me more than principal or
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  Speaker 3: prejudice from purchasing my shadow, essential as it was by
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 3: the required signature. The thought also was intolerable of me
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  Speaker 3: making the excursion which he proposed in his company. To
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  Speaker 3: see this abhorred sneak, this mocking cobbold step between me
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  Speaker 3: and my beloved, too torn and bleeding hearts revolted my
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  Speaker 3: innermost feeling. I regarded what was past as predestined and
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  Speaker 3: my wretchedness as unchangeable. And turning to this man, I
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  Speaker 3: said to him, Sir, I have sold you my shadow
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  Speaker 3: for this in itself most excellent purse, and I have
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  Speaker 3: sufficiently repented of it. Let the bargain be at an
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  Speaker 3: end in God's name. He shook his head and made
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  Speaker 3: a very gloomy face. I continued, I will then sell
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  Speaker 3: you nothing further of mine, even for this offered price
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  Speaker 3: of my shadow, and therefore I shall sign nothing from this.
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  Speaker 3: You may understand that the cap wearing to which you
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 3: invite me must be much more amusing for you than
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 3: for me. Excuse me therefore, and as it cannot be otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: let us part. It grieves me, Herschamel, that you would
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 3: obstinately decline the business which I propose to you. Perhaps
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  Speaker 3: another time I may be more fortunate till our speedy
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 3: meeting again, Apropos, permit me yet to show you that
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  Speaker 3: the things which I purchase I by no means suffer
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  Speaker 3: to grow moldy, but honorably preserve, and that they are
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  Speaker 3: well used by me. With that, he drew my shadow
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  Speaker 3: out of his pocket, and, with a dexterous throw, unfolding
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 3: it on the heath, spread it out on the sunny
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 3: side of his feet, so that he walked between two
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 3: attendant shadows, his own and mine. For mine must equally
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 3: obey him and accommodate itself too, and follow all his movements.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: When I once saw my poor shadow again, after so
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 3: long an absence and beheld it degraded to so vile
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 3: a service, whilst I, on its account, was in such
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 3: unspeakable trouble. My heart broke, and I began bitterly to weep.
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 3: The detested wretch swaggered with the plunder snatched from me,
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 3: and impudently renewed his proposal. You can yet have it
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 3: a stroke of the pen, and you can snatch therewith
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  Speaker 3: the poor, unhappy mina from the claws of the villain
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  Speaker 3: into the arms of the most honored her graph as
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 3: observed only a stroke of the pen. My tears burst
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 3: forth with fresh impetuosity, and I turned away a motion
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 3: to him to withdraw himself. Bendel, who filled with anxiety,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 3: had traced me to this spot at this moment, arrived.
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 3: When the kind good soul found me weeping and saw
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 3: my shadow, which could not be mistaken in the power
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 3: of the mysterious gray man, he immediately resolved, were it
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 3: even by force to restore to me the possession of
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 3: my property, And as he did not understand going much
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 3: about with tender phrases, he immediately assaulted the man with words,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 3: and without much asking, ordered him bluntly to allow that
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 3: which was my own instantly to follow me. Instead of answer,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 3: he turned his back and went but bendel up with
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 3: his buckthorn cudgel, which he carried, and following on his
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 3: heels without mercy, and with reiterated commands to give up
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 3: the shadow made him feel the full force of his
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 3: vigorous arm. He as accustomed to such handling, ducked his head,
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  Speaker 3: set up his shoulders, and with silent and deliberate steps,
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 3: pursued his way over the heath. At once, going off
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 3: with my shadow and my faithful servant, I long heard
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 3: the heavy sounds roll over the waist till they were
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 3: finally lost in the distance. I was alone, as before,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 3: with my misery. End of chapter five. Recording by Meghan Lamb.
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  Speaker 3: Chapter six of The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemil, The
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  Speaker 3: Man Who Lost to Shadow. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 3: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 3: by Megan Lamb. The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemil, The
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  Speaker 3: Man Who Lost his Shadow by Delbert von Chaniso, translated
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  Speaker 3: by Frederick Henry Hedge. Chapter six left alone on the
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  Speaker 3: wild heath, I gave free current to my countless tears,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 3: relieving my heart from an ineffably weary wait. But I
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 3: saw no bound, no outlet, no end to my intolerable misery.
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 3: And I drank besides with savage thirsts of the fresh
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 3: poison which then had poured into my wounds. When I
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 3: called the image of Mina before my soul, and the
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  Speaker 3: dear sweet form appeared, pale and in tears as I
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 3: saw her last in my shame, then stepped the shadow
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  Speaker 3: of the impudent and mocking rascal between her and me.
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 3: I covered my face and fled through the wild. But
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 3: the hideous apparition left me not but pursued me in
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 3: my flight till I sank breathless on the ground and
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 3: moistened it with a fresh torrent of tears. And all
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 3: for a shadow, and this shadow a penstroke had obtained
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 3: for me. I thought on the strange proposition. In my refusal,
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: all was chaos in me. I had no longer either
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 3: judgment or mastership of thought. The day went over, I
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 3: stilled my hunger with wild fruits my thirst in the
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 3: nearest mountain stream. The night fell, I lay down beneath
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 3: a tree. The damp morning awoke me out of a
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 3: heavy sleep, in which I heard myself rattle in the throat,
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 3: as in death. Bendell must have lost all trace of me,
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 3: and it rejoiced me to think so I would not
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 3: return again amongst men before whom I fled in terror,
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 3: like the timid game of the mountains. Thus I lived
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 3: through three weary days. On the fourth morning, I found
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 3: myself on a sunny plain, bright with the sun, and
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: sate on the fragment of a rock in its beams.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 3: For I loved now to enjoy its long withheld countenance,
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 3: I still fed my heart with its despair. A light
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 3: rustle startled me ready for flight. I threw round me
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 3: a hurried glance. I saw no one, but in the
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 3: sunny sand there glided past me a human shadow, not
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 3: unlike my own, which, wandering there alone, seemed to have
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 3: gotten away from its possessor. Footnote. The notion of a
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 3: human shadow escaping from it its possessor and independently wandering
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 3: about by itself on the sunny sand is a delightful
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 3: absurdity of the most willful sort, reminding us of the
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 3: laughable extravagancies of Munchison. It is a satire on that
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  Speaker 3: empirical philosophy which holds that the material order is the
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 3: elusive reality, the ideal order and empty delusion. Those who
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 3: think this reach only vacant and quasi universals more collections
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 3: by abstractive generalizations from physical phenomena. Instead of rising to
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 3: the creative archetypes in the exemplar mind of the first principle,
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 3: from whose external substance all else's derivative shadows and reflections,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 3: they entirely overlook the necessary presuppositions, without whose coalition and
• 1:30:51
  Speaker 3: cooperation no physical object could possibly exist. Number, fource, space, time,
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  Speaker 3: motion are not material phenomena, but are the logical conditions
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  Speaker 3: requisite for the emergence of any such show. Now, logical
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 3: conditions imply the logos as every thinking carries a thinker. Hence,
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 3: material phenomena themselves prove and reveal the existence of spirit, purpose,
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  Speaker 3: self determined expression. And these concepts, so far from being
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 3: vacuous abstracts, are the primordial concretes, the ideal realities which
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 3: lead to our intuitive contemplation, God, freedom, and immortality. No
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  Speaker 3: abstraction whatever can exist save as the act of an
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  Speaker 3: abstractor Every abstraction is self evidently the result of an
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 3: abstracting act perform upon pre existing concreteness. All the contents
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 3: of these freighted prepositions are obviously involved in the un
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 3: questionable fact that no shadow can possibly appear in the
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  Speaker 3: order of sense, except as the direct consequence of causes
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 3: previously existence and operative in the ideal order. A shadow
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 3: is the unsubstantial form thrown on some supporting ground by
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 3: an object whose opaque matter obstructs the light and excludes
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 3: it from the outline area behind. It is not an
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  Speaker 3: entity at all. It is absolutely incapable of independence. It is,
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  Speaker 3: in its ultimate definition, purely a phenomenal modification resultant from
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  Speaker 3: the interaction of other phenomena. But all phenomena are revelatory
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 3: manifestations of their hidden causes. Every phenomenon is the apparitional
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 3: unveiling of its numenon. Furthermore, all phenomena in all numena
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  Speaker 3: are interrelated in one continuous system of reality, each part
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  Speaker 3: of which is pervaded and unif by the indivisible whole.
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  Speaker 3: We can no more account for our human experience without
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 3: the causative ideas of God purposiveness, liberty, infinity. Then we
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  Speaker 3: can understand the production of an abstract shadow without presupposing
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 3: the concrete reality of a ground, a light, and an
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  Speaker 3: intervening body. End a footnote therein woke in me a
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 3: mighty yearning shadow, said, I dost thou seek thy master,
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 3: I will be he? And I sprang forward to seize it.
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 3: I thought that if I succeeded in treading on it
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 3: so that its feet touched mine, it would probably remain
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 3: hanging there and in time accommodate itself to me. The shadow,
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 3: on my moving fled before me, and I was compelled
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 3: to begin a strenuous chase of the light, fugitive, for
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 3: which only the thought of rescuing myself from my fearful
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 3: condition could have endowed me with the requisite vigor. It
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 3: flew towards a wood, at a great distance, in which
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 3: I must, of necessity have lost it. I perceived this
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  Speaker 3: a horror, convulsed my heart and flamed my desire. Added
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 3: wings to my speed. I gained evidently on the shadow.
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 3: I came continually nearer. I must certainly reach it. Suddenly
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 3: it stopped and turned toward me like a lion on
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 3: its prey. I shot with a mighty spring forward to
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 3: make seizure of it, and dashed unexpectedly against a hard object. Invisibly,
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 3: I received the most terrible blows on the ribs that
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 3: mortal man ever felt. The effect of the terror in
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 3: me was convulsively to close my arms, and firmly to
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 3: enclose that which stood unseen before me. In the rapid transaction,
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 3: I plunged forward to the ground. But behind and under
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 3: me was a man whom I had embraced, and who
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 3: now first became visible. The whole occurrence became now very
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 3: naturally explicable to me. The man must have carried the
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: invisible bird's nes, which renders him who holds it, but
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 3: not his shadow imperceptible, and had now cast it away.
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 3: I glanced round, soon discovered the shadow of the invisible
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 3: nest itself, leaped up and towards it, and did not
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  Speaker 3: miss the precious prize. Invisible and shadowless. I held the
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 3: nest in my hand. The man, swiftly springing up, gazing
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 3: round instantly after his fortunate conqueror described on the wide
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 3: sunny plain, neither him nor his shadow, for which he
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 3: sought with especial avidity for that I was myself entirely shadowless.
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 3: He had no leisure to remark, nor could he imagine
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 3: such a thing. Having convinced himself that every trace had vanished,
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 3: he turned his head against himself and tore his hair.
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 3: To me. However, the acquired treasure had given the power
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 3: and desire to mix again amongst men. I did not
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 3: want for self satisfying palliatives from my base, or rather
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 3: I had no need of them, and to escape from
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 3: every thought of the kind, I hastened away, not even
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: looking round at the unhappy one, whose supploring voice I
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 3: long heard resounding behind me. Thus at least appeared to
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 3: me the circumstances at the time. I was on fire.
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 3: To proceed to the forester's garden and near myself, to
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 3: discern the truth of what the detested one had told me,
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 3: I knew not, however, where I was. I climbed the
• 1:36:31
  Speaker 3: next hill in order to look round over the country
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 3: and perceive from its summit the near city and the
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 3: forester's garden lying at my feet. My heart beat violently,
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 3: and tears of another kind than what I till now
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 3: shed rushed into my eyes. I should see her again.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 3: Anxious desires hastened my steps. Down the most direct path,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 3: I passed unseen some peasants who came out of the city.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 3: They were talking of me, of Rascal and the forest master.
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  Speaker 3: I would hear nothing. I hurried past. I entered the garden,
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  Speaker 3: all the tremor of expectation in my bosom. I seemed
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  Speaker 3: to hear laughter near me. I shuddered through a rapid
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 3: glance round me, but could discover nobody. I advanced further.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 3: I seemed to perceive a sound as of a man's
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 3: step at hand, but there was nothing to be seen.
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 3: I believed myself deceived by my ear. It was yet
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 3: early no one in Graf Peter's arbor, the garden still empty.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 3: I traversed the well known paths. I penetrated to the
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  Speaker 3: very front of the dwelling. The same noise more distinctly
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  Speaker 3: followed me. I seated myself with an agonized heart, on
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  Speaker 3: a bench which stood in the sunny space before the
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  Speaker 3: house door. It seemed to me as if I had
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  Speaker 3: heard the unseen cobbled laughing in mockery, see it himself
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  Speaker 3: near me. The key turned in the door, and it opened,
• 1:38:03
  Speaker 3: and the forest master issued forth with papers in his hand.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 3: A mist seemed to envelop my head. I looked up
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 3: in horror. The man in the gray coat sate by me,
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 3: gazing on me with a satanic leer. He had drawn
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  Speaker 3: his tarn cap at once over his head and mine
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 3: at his feet. Lay his and my shadow peacefully by
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 3: each other. He played negligently with the well known paper
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 3: which he held in his hand, And as the forest
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 3: master busied with his documents, when to and fro in
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 3: the shadow of the arbor, he stooped familiarly to my
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  Speaker 3: ear and whispered in it these words. So then you
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 3: have notwithstanding accepted my invitation. And here said we for
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 3: once two heads under one cap. All right, all right,
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 3: but now give me my bird's nest again. You have
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 3: no further occasion for it, and are too honorable a
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  Speaker 3: man to wish to withhold it from me. But there
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 3: needs no thanks. I assure you that I have lent
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 3: it to you with the most hearty good will. He
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 3: took it unceremoniously out of my hand, put it in
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 3: his pocket, and laughed at me. And that's so loud
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 3: that the forest master himself looked round at the noise.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 3: I sat there as if changed to stone. But you
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 3: must allow, continued he that such a cap is much
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 3: more convenient. It covers not only your person, but your
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 3: shadow at the same time, and as many others as
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: you have a mind to take with you. See you
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 3: today again, I conduct two of them, he laughed again.
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 3: Mark this, Schlemiel, what we at first won't do with
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 3: a good will, that will we in the end be
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 3: compelled to do. I still fancy you will buy that
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 3: thing from me. Take back the bride, for it is
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 3: yet time, and we leave dangling on the gallows, an
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 3: easy thing for us, so long as rope is to
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 3: be had. Hear you, I will give you also my
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 3: cap into the bargain. The mother came forth, and the
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 3: conversation began. How goes it with Mina? She weeps, silly child.
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 3: It cannot be altered, certainly not, but to give her
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 3: to another? So soon, Oh man, thou art cruel to
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  Speaker 3: thy own child. No mother that thou quite mistakest. When she,
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 3: even before she has wept out her childish tears, finds
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  Speaker 3: herself the wife of a very rich and honorable man.
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  Speaker 3: She will awake, comforted out of her trouble, as out
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  Speaker 3: of a dream and thank God and us that wilt
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  Speaker 3: thou see God grant it. She possesses now indeed a
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 3: very respectable property. But after the stir that this unlucky
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 3: affair with the adventurer has made kit'st thou believe that
• 1:41:03
  Speaker 3: a partner so suitable as mister Rascal could be readily
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  Speaker 3: found for her? Dost thou know what a fortune mister
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 3: Rascal possesses. He has paid six millions for his steeds
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 3: here in the country, free from all debts. I've had
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 3: the title deeds in my own hands. He it was
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 3: who everywhere had the start of me. And besides this
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 3: has in his possession bills on Thomas John for about
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 3: five and a half millions. He must have stolen enormously.
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 3: What talk is that? Again? He has widely saved what
• 1:41:36
  Speaker 3: would otherwise have been lavished away a man that has
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 3: worn livery stupid stuff. He has, however, an unblemished shadow.
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  Speaker 3: Thou art right. But the man in the gray coat
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 3: laughed and looked at me. The door opened and Mina
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 3: came forth. She supported herself on the arm of a chambermaid.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 3: Silent tears rolled down her lovely pale cheeks. She seated
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 3: herself on a stool which was placed for her under
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 3: the lime trees, and her father took a chair by her.
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 3: He tenderly took her hand and addressed her with tender words,
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  Speaker 3: while she began violently to weep. Thou art, my good
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 3: dear child, and thou wilt be reasonable, wilt not wish
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 3: to distress thy old father, who seeks only thy happiness.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 3: I can well conceive it, dear heart, that it has
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 3: sadly shaken thee. Thou art wonderfully escaped from thy misfortunes,
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  Speaker 3: before we discover the scandalous and position. Thou hast loved
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 3: this unworthy one greatly. See Mina, I know it, and
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 3: upbraid thee not for it. I myself, dear child, also
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 3: loved him so long as I looked upon him as
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 3: a great gentleman. But now thou seest how different all
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 3: has turned out? What every poodle has his own shadow?
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 3: And should my dear child have a husband? Know thou
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 3: thinkest indeed know more about him. Listen, Mina, Now a
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 3: man solicits thy hand, who does not shun the sunshine,
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  Speaker 3: an honorable man who truly is no prince, but who
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  Speaker 3: possesses ten millions ten times more than thou, a man
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  Speaker 3: who will make my dear child happy. Answer me, not
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  Speaker 3: make no opposition, be my good, dutiful daughter. Let thy
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 3: loving father care for thee and dry thy tears. Promise
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  Speaker 3: me to give thy hand to mister Rascal. Say wilt
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  Speaker 3: thou promise me this? She answered with a faint voice.
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  Speaker 3: I have no will, no wish further upon earth. Happen
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 3: with me what my father will. At this moment, mister
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 3: Rascal was announced and stepped impudently into the circle. Mina
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 3: lay in a swoon. My detested companion go glanced archly
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  Speaker 3: at me and whispered in hurried words, and that can
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 3: you endure? What then flows instead of blood in your veins?
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 3: He scratched with a hasty movement, a single wound in
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  Speaker 3: my hand. Blood flowed, and he continued, actually red blood,
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  Speaker 3: so sign then I had the parchment and the pen
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  Speaker 3: in my hand. End of chapter six. Recording by Megan Lamb.
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  Speaker 4: Chapter seven of the Wonderful History of Peter Schlemiel, The
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  Speaker 4: Man who Lost his Shadow. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 4: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 4: by James K. White. Chula Vista, The Wonderful History of
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  Speaker 4: Peter Schlemiel The Man who Lost his Shadow by Adelbert
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  Speaker 4: von Chimiso, translated by Frederick Henry Hedge, Chapter seven. My wish,
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 4: dear Chimiso, is merely to submit myself to thy judgment,
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  Speaker 4: not to endeavor to bias it. I have long passed
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 4: the severest sentence on myself, for I have nourished the
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  Speaker 4: tormenting worm in my heart. It hovered during this solemn
• 1:45:26
  Speaker 4: moment of my life, incessantly before my soul, and I
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  Speaker 4: could only lift my eyes to it with a despairing glance,
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  Speaker 4: with humility and contrition. Dear friend, he who in levity
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  Speaker 4: only sets his foot out of the right road, is
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  Speaker 4: unawares conducted into other paths which draw him downwards and
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  Speaker 4: ever downwards. He then sees in vain the guiding stars
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  Speaker 4: glitter in heaven. There remains to him no choice. He
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 4: must descend unpausingly the day clivity and become a voluntary
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  Speaker 4: sacrifice to Nemesis. After the false step which had laid
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  Speaker 4: the curse upon me, I had sinning through love forced
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  Speaker 4: myself into the fortunes of another being, and what remained
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  Speaker 4: for me, But that where I had sowed destruction, where
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  Speaker 4: speedy salvation was demanded of me, I should blindly rush
• 1:46:21
  Speaker 4: forward to the rescue for the last hour struck. Think
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  Speaker 4: not so meanly of me, my Adelbear, as to imagine
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  Speaker 4: that I should have regarded any price that was demanded
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  Speaker 4: as too high, that I should have begrudged anything that
• 1:46:36
  Speaker 4: was mine even more than my gold. No, Adelbert, but
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 4: my soul was possessed with the most unconquerable hatred of
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  Speaker 4: this mysterious speaker along crooked paths. I might do him injustice,
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 4: but every degree of association with him maddened me. And
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 4: here stepped forth, as so frequently in my life, and
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 4: as especially off and in the history of the world,
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 4: an event instead of an action. Since then I have
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  Speaker 4: achieved reconciliation with myself. I have learned, in the first place,
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  Speaker 4: to reverence necessity, and what is more than the action performed,
• 1:47:15
  Speaker 4: the event accomplished her property. Then I have learned to
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 4: venerate this necessity as a wise providence, which lives through
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  Speaker 4: that great collective machine in which we officiate simply as
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 4: cooperating impelling and impelled wheels. What shall be must be,
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  Speaker 4: what should be happened, and not without that providence which
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 4: I ultimately learned to reverence in my own fate and
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 4: in the fate of her on whom mine thus impinged.
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  Speaker 4: I know not whether I shall ascribe it to the
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 4: excitement of my soul under the impulse of such mighty sensations,
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 4: or to the exhaustion of my physical strength, which, during
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 4: the last day such unwonted privations had enfeebled, or whether
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  Speaker 4: finally to the desolating commotion which the presence of this
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 4: gray fiend excited in my whole nature. Be that as
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 4: it may. As I was on the point of signing,
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  Speaker 4: I fell into a deep swoon and lay a long
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  Speaker 4: time as in the arms of death. Stamping of feet
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 4: and curses were the first sounds which struck my ear.
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  Speaker 4: As I returned to consciousness, I opened my eyes. It
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  Speaker 4: was dark. My detested attendant was busy scolding about me.
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  Speaker 4: Is not that to behave like an old woman? Up
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 4: with you, man, and complete offhand what you have resolved on?
• 1:48:46
  Speaker 4: If you have not taken another thought, and had rather blubber.
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 4: I raised myself with difficulty from the ground and gazed
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 4: in silence around. It was late in the evening. Festive
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 4: music resounded from the brightly illuminated Forester's house. Various groups
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  Speaker 4: of people wandered through the garden walks. One couple came
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  Speaker 4: near in conversation and seated themselves on the bench which
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  Speaker 4: I had just quitted. They talked of the union this
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  Speaker 4: morning solemnized between mister Rascal and the daughter of the house.
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 4: So then it had taken place. I tore the tarn
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  Speaker 4: cap of the already vanished unknown from my head and
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 4: hastened in brooding silence towards the garden gate, plunging myself
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  Speaker 4: into the deepest night of the thicket, and striking along
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 4: the path past Grafpeter's arbor. But invisibly my tormenting spirit
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 4: accompanied me, pursuing me with the keenest reproaches. These, then,
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 4: are one's thanks for the pains which one has taken
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  Speaker 4: to support you, who have weak nerves through the long,
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  Speaker 4: precious day. And one shall act the fool and the
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  Speaker 4: play good. Mister wronghead, fly you from me if you please,
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  Speaker 4: but we are nevertheless inseparable. You have my gold and
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  Speaker 4: I your shadow, and this will allow us no repose.
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  Speaker 4: Did anybody ever hear of a shadow forsaking its master yours?
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  Speaker 4: Draws me after you till you take it again into
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  Speaker 4: favor and I get rid of it. What you have
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  Speaker 4: hesitated to do out of fresh pleasure, will you, only
• 1:50:30
  Speaker 4: too late, be compelled to seek through new weariness and disgust.
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 4: One cannot escape one's fate, He continued, speaking in the
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 4: same tone. I fled in vain. He relaxed, not but
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 4: ever present, insultingly talked of gold and shadow. I could
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 4: come to no single thought of my own. I struck
• 1:50:54
  Speaker 4: through unfrequented ways towards my house. When I stood before
• 1:50:58
  Speaker 4: it and gazed at it, I could see scarcely recognize it.
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  Speaker 4: No light shone through the dashed in windows, the doors
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  Speaker 4: were closed, no throng of servants was moving therein there
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  Speaker 4: was a laugh near me. Ha ha. So goes it.
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  Speaker 4: But you'll probably find your Bendel at home, For he
• 1:51:17
  Speaker 4: was the other day purposely sent back, so weary that
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 4: he has most likely kept his bed since he laughed again,
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  Speaker 4: he will have a story to tell.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Then, for the present, good night we meet speedily again.
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  Speaker 4: I had rung repeatedly. Light appeared, Bendle demanded from within,
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  Speaker 4: who rung. When the good man recognized my voice, he
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 4: could scarcely restrain his joy. The door flew open, and
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 4: we stood, weeping in each other's arms. I found him
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 4: greatly changed, weak and ill. But for me my hair
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 4: had become quite gray. He conducted me through the desolated
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  Speaker 4: rooms to an inner apartment which had been spared. He
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 4: brought food and wine, and we seated ourselves, and he
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 4: again began to weep. He related to me that he
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 4: the other day had cudgeled the gray clad man whom
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 4: he had encountered with my shadow, so long and so
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  Speaker 4: far that he had lost all trace of me, and
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 4: had sunk to the earth in utter fatigue. That after this,
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 4: as he could not find me, he returned home whither Presently,
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 4: the mob, at Rascal's instigation, came rushing in fury, dashed
• 1:52:34
  Speaker 4: in the windows, and gave full play to their lust
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 4: of demolition. Thus did they to their benefactor. The servants
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 4: had fled various ways. The police had ordered me, as
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 4: a suspicious person to quit the city, and had allowed
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 4: only four and twenty hours in which to get out
• 1:52:52
  Speaker 4: of their jurisdiction. To that which I already knew of
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 4: Rascal's affluence and marriage. He had yet much to add.
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 4: This scoundrel from whom all had proceeded that had been
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 4: done against me, must from the beginning have been in
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 4: possession of my secret. It appeared that, attracted by gold,
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 4: he had contrived to thrust himself upon me, and at
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 4: the very first had procured a key to the gold
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 4: cupboard where he had laid the foundation of that fortune,
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 4: whose augmentation he could now afford to despise. All this,
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 4: Bendal narrated to me with abundant tears, and then wept
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 4: for joy that he again beheld me, again had me,
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 4: and that after he had long doubted whither his misfortune
• 1:53:39
  Speaker 4: might have led me, he saw me bear it so
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 4: calmly and collectedly. For such an aspect had despair now
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  Speaker 4: assumed in me. I beheld my misery unchangeably before me.
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 4: I had wept out to it my last tear. Not
• 1:53:55
  Speaker 4: another cry could be exhorted from my heart. I presented
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  Speaker 4: to it my bare head with chill indifference. Bendell, I said,
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  Speaker 4: thou knowest my lot, not without earlier blame has my
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  Speaker 4: heavy punishment Befallen me, Thou, innocent man, shalt no longer
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  Speaker 4: bind thy destiny to mine. I do not desire it.
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  Speaker 4: I ride to night, still forward, saddle me a horse.
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  Speaker 4: I ride alone. Thou remainest. It is my will here
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  Speaker 4: still must remain some chests of gold that retain thou.
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  Speaker 4: But I will alone wonder incessantly through the world. But
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 4: if ever a happier hour should smile upon me, and
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 4: fortune look on me with reconciled eyes, then will I
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  Speaker 4: remember THEE. For I have wept upon thy firmly faithful bosom,
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 4: in heavy and agonizing hours, with a broken heart. Was
• 1:54:55
  Speaker 4: this honest man compelled to obey this last command of
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  Speaker 4: his master, at which his soul shrunk with terror. I
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  Speaker 4: was deaf to his prayers, to his representations, blind to
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  Speaker 4: his tears. He brought me out of my steed once more.
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  Speaker 4: I pressed the weeping man to my bosom, sprang into
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 4: the saddle, and under the shroud of night, hastened from
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 4: the grave of my existence, regardless which way my horse
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  Speaker 4: conducted me, since I had longer on the earth, no aim,
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  Speaker 4: no wish, no hope. End of chapter seven recording by
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  Speaker 4: James K. White Chi lia Vista. Chapter eight of The
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  Speaker 4: Wonderful History of Peter Schlemiel, The Man Who Lost his Shadow.
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  Speaker 4: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 4: visit LibriVox dot com. Recording by James K. White Chula Vista.
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  Speaker 4: The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemiel The Man Who Lost
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 4: His Shadow by Adelbert von Chemisso, translated by Frederick Henry Hedge,
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  Speaker 4: Chapter eight. A pedestrian soon joined me, who begged, after
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 4: he had walked for some time by the side of
• 1:56:25
  Speaker 4: my horse, that as we went the same way, he
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 4: might be allowed to lay a cloak, which he carried
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 4: on the steed behind me. I permitted it in silence.
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 4: He thanked me with easy politeness for the trifling service,
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 4: praised my horse, and thence took occasion to extol the
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 4: happiness and power of the rich, and let himself, I
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 4: know not how, fall into a kind of monolog in
• 1:56:51
  Speaker 4: which he had me now merely for a listener. He
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 4: unfolded his views of life and of the world, and
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 4: came very so soon upon metaphysics, in which the ultimate
• 1:57:03
  Speaker 4: pretension extended to the discovery of the word that should
• 1:57:06
  Speaker 4: solve all mysteries. He stated his premises with great clearness,
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 4: and proceeded to the proofs. Thou knowest, my friend, that
• 1:57:16
  Speaker 4: I have clearly discovered, since I have run through the
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  Speaker 4: schools of the philosophers, that I have by no means
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 4: a turn for philosophical speculations, and that I have totally
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 4: renounced for myself this field. Since then I have left
• 1:57:31
  Speaker 4: many things to themselves, abandoned the desire to know and
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 4: to comprehend many things. And as thou thyself didst advise me, have,
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 4: trusting to my common sense, followed as far as I
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 4: was able the voice within me on the direct course. Now,
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 4: this rhetorician seemed to me to raise with great talent
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 4: a firmly put together fabric which was at once self
• 1:57:58
  Speaker 4: based and self support and stood as by an innate necessity.
• 1:58:04
  Speaker 4: I missed, however, in it completely what most of all
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 4: I was desirous to find, and so it became for
• 1:58:12
  Speaker 4: me merely a work of art whose ornamental compactness and
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 4: completeness served only to charm the eye. Nevertheless, I listened
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 4: willingly to the eloquent man who drew my attention from
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 4: my grief to him, and I would have gladly yielded
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  Speaker 4: myself wholly up to him, had he captivated my heart
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 4: as well as my understanding. Meanwhile, the time had passed,
• 1:58:38
  Speaker 4: and unobserved, the dawn had already enlightened the heaven. I
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 4: was horrified as I looked suddenly up and saw the
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  Speaker 4: pomp of colors unfold itself in the east, which announced
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 4: the approach of the sun. While at this hour, in
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 4: which the shadows ostentatiously display themselves in their greatest extent,
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 4: there was no part detection from it, no refuge in
• 1:59:02
  Speaker 4: the open country to be descried, and I was not alone.
• 1:59:07
  Speaker 4: I cast a glance at my companion, and was again
• 1:59:10
  Speaker 4: terror struck. It was no other than the man in
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 4: the gray coat. He smiled at my alarm and went
• 1:59:18
  Speaker 4: on without allowing me to get in a word. Let However,
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 4: as is the way of the world, our mutual advantage
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  Speaker 4: for a while unite us. It is all in good
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  Speaker 4: time for separating the road here along the mountain range.
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  Speaker 4: Though you have not yet thought of it, is nevertheless
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  Speaker 4: the only one into which you could prudently have struck
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 4: Down into the valley you may not venture, and still
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 4: less will you desire to return again over the heights
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  Speaker 4: whence you are come, and this is also exactly my way.
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  Speaker 4: I see that you already turn pale before the rising sun.
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  Speaker 4: I will, for the time we keep company, lend you
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  Speaker 4: your shadow, and you, on that account tolerate me in
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  Speaker 4: your society. You have no longer your bendle with you.
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  Speaker 4: I will do you good service. You do not like me,
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 4: and I am sorry for it. But notwithstanding, you can
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 4: make use of me. The devil is not so black
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  Speaker 4: as he is painted. Yesterday you vexed me. It is true.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 4: I will not upbraid you with it today. And I
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 4: have already shortened the way hither for you that you
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  Speaker 4: must allow only just take your shadow again. A while
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 4: on trail, the sun had ascended. People appeared on the road.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 4: I accepted, though with internal repugnance, the proposal. Smiling, he
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  Speaker 4: let my shadow glide to the ground, which immediately took
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  Speaker 4: its place on that of the horse, and trotted gaily
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  Speaker 4: by my side. I was in the strangest state of mind.
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 4: I rode past a group of country people who made
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  Speaker 4: way for a man of consequence, reverently and with bared heads.
• 2:01:08
  Speaker 4: I rode on and gazed with greedy eyes and a
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  Speaker 4: palpitating heart on this my quondam shadow, which I had
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  Speaker 4: now borrowed from a stranger, Yes, from an enemy. The
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  Speaker 4: man went carelessly near me and even whistled a tune.
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 4: He on foot, I on horseback. A dizziness seized me.
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  Speaker 4: The temptation was too great. I suddenly turned the reins,
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  Speaker 4: clapped spurs to the horse, and struck at full speed
• 2:01:39
  Speaker 4: into a side path. But I carried not off the shadow,
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  Speaker 4: which at the turning glided from the horse and awaited
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  Speaker 4: its lawful possessor on the high road. I was compelled
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  Speaker 4: with shame to turn back. The man in the gray coat,
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 4: when he had calmly finished his tune, laughed at me,
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 4: set the shadow right again for me, and informed me
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 4: it would then only hang fast and remain with me
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  Speaker 4: when I was disposed to become the rightful proprietor. I hold,
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  Speaker 4: you continued he fast by the shadow, and you cannot
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 4: escape me. A rich man like you needs shadow. It
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 4: cannot be otherwise, and you only are to blame that
• 2:02:24
  Speaker 4: you did not perceive that sooner I continued my journey
• 2:02:28
  Speaker 4: on the same road. The comforts and the splendor of
• 2:02:32
  Speaker 4: life again surrounded me. I could move about freely and conveniently,
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  Speaker 4: since I possessed a shadow, although only a borrowed one,
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 4: and I everywhere inspired the respect which riches command. But
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 4: I carried death in my heart. My strange companion, who
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 4: gave himself out as the unworthy servant of the richest
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 4: man in the world, possessed an extraordinary professional readiness, prompt
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 4: and clever beyond comparison, the very model of a valet
• 2:03:01
  Speaker 4: for a rich man. But he stirred not from my side,
• 2:03:05
  Speaker 4: perpetually directing the conversation towards me, and continually blabbing out
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 4: the most confidential matters, So that at length, were it
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  Speaker 4: only to be rid of him, I resolved to settle
• 2:03:17
  Speaker 4: the affair of the shadow. He was become as burdensome
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 4: to me as he was hateful. I was even in
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  Speaker 4: fear of him. He had made me dependent on him.
• 2:03:28
  Speaker 4: He held me after he had conducted me back into
• 2:03:31
  Speaker 4: the glory of the world which I had fled from.
• 2:03:35
  Speaker 4: I was obliged to tolerate his eloquence upon myself, and felt,
• 2:03:39
  Speaker 4: in fact that he was in the right. A rich
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 4: man in the world must have a shadow, and so
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 4: soon as I desired to command the rank which he
• 2:03:49
  Speaker 4: had contrived again to make necessary to me. I saw
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  Speaker 4: but one issue by this. However, I stood fast. After
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 4: having sacrificed my love, after my life had been blighted,
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  Speaker 4: I would never sign away my soul to this creature.
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 4: For all the shadows in the world, I knew not
• 2:04:08
  Speaker 4: how it would end. We sat one day before a
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  Speaker 4: cave which the strangers who frequent these mountains are accustomed
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  Speaker 4: to visit. We heard there the rush of subterranean streams
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  Speaker 4: roaring up from immeasurable depths, and the stone cast in seemed,
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  Speaker 4: in its resounding fall, to find no bottom. He painted
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  Speaker 4: to me, as he often did, with a vivid power
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  Speaker 4: of imagination, and in the lustrous charms of the most
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  Speaker 4: brilliant colors, the most carefully finished pictures of what I
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 4: might achieve in the world by virtue of my purse.
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  Speaker 4: If I had but once my shadow in my possession.
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  Speaker 4: With my elbows rested on my knees, I kept my
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  Speaker 4: face concealed in my hands and listened to the false one.
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  Speaker 4: My heart divided between the seduction and my own strong will.
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  Speaker 4: In such an inward conflict, I could no longer contain myself,
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  Speaker 4: and the deciding strife began. You appear, sir, to forget
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  Speaker 4: that I have indeed allowed you, upon certain conditions, to
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  Speaker 4: remain in my company, but that I have reserved my
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  Speaker 4: perfect freedom. If you command it, I pack up. He
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  Speaker 4: was accustomed to menace, I was silent. He began immediately
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  Speaker 4: to roll up my shadow. I turned pale, but I
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  Speaker 4: let him proceed. There followed a long pause. He first
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  Speaker 4: broke it. You cannot bear me, sir. You hate me.
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  Speaker 4: I know it. Yet why do you hate me? Is
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 4: it because you attacked me on the highway and sought
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  Speaker 4: to deprive me by violence of my bird's nest?
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  Speaker 3: Or?
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  Speaker 4: Is it because you have endeavored, in a thievish manner
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  Speaker 4: to cheat me out of my property, the shadow, which
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 4: was entrusted to you entirely on your honor. I, for
• 2:06:01
  Speaker 4: my part, do not therefore hate you. I find it
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  Speaker 4: quite natural that you should seek to avail yourself of
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  Speaker 4: all your advantages, cunning and power, for the rest that
• 2:06:13
  Speaker 4: you have the very strictest principles, that you have a taste,
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  Speaker 4: which you think is like honor itself. Against this, I
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  Speaker 4: have nothing to say. In fact, I think not so
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  Speaker 4: strictly as you. I merely act as you think, or
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  Speaker 4: have I at any time pressed my finger on your
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  Speaker 4: throat in order to bring to me your most precious soul,
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  Speaker 4: for which I have a fancy. Have I, on account
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  Speaker 4: of my bartered purse, let a servant loose on you?
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  Speaker 4: Have I sought thus to swindle you out of it?
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  Speaker 4: I had nothing to oppose to this, and he proceeded,
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  Speaker 4: Very good, sir, Very good. You cannot endure me. I
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  Speaker 4: know that very well, and am by no means angry
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  Speaker 4: with you for it. We must part, that is clear,
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  Speaker 4: and in fact you begin to be very wearisome to me.
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  Speaker 4: In order then, to rid you of my further shame
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  Speaker 4: inspiring presence, I once more counsel you to purchase this
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 4: thing from me. I extended to him the purse at
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 4: that price. No, I sighed deeply, and added, be it so? Then,
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  Speaker 4: I insist, sir, that we part, and that you no
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 4: longer obstruct my path in a world which, it is
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  Speaker 4: to be hoped, has room enough in it for us both.
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  Speaker 4: He smiled and replied, I go, sir, but first let
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  Speaker 4: me instruct you how you may ring for me when
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  Speaker 4: you desire to see again, your most devoted servant. You
• 2:07:49
  Speaker 4: have only to shake your purse so that the eternal
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 4: gold pieces therein jingle and the sound will instantly attract me.
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  Speaker 4: Every one thinks of his own advantage in this world.
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  Speaker 4: You see that I at the same time am thoughtful
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 4: of yours, since I revealed to you a new power.
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  Speaker 4: Oh this purse. Had the moths already devoured your shadow,
• 2:08:14
  Speaker 4: that would still constitute a strong bond between us. Enough,
• 2:08:19
  Speaker 4: you have me in my gold. Should you have any commands,
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 4: even when far off for your servant, you know that
• 2:08:27
  Speaker 4: I can show myself very active in the service of
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  Speaker 4: my friends, and the rich stand particularly well with me.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 4: You have seen it yourself only your shadow, Sir, allow
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  Speaker 4: me to tell you that never again, except on one
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  Speaker 4: sole condition. Is it yours? Forms of the pastime swept
• 2:08:49
  Speaker 4: before my soul? I demanded hastily, had you a signature
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  Speaker 4: for mister John? He smiled, with so good a friend.
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  Speaker 4: It was by no means necessary. Where is he? I
• 2:09:03
  Speaker 4: will know it? He plunged hesitatingly his hand into his
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  Speaker 4: pocket and dragged thence by the hair appeared Thomas John's
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 4: ghastly disfigured form, and the blue death lips moved themselves
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 4: with heavy words housto houdisio they houdiicatus sum husto houdisio,
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  Speaker 4: de condemnatus sum, I cried out with horror, dashing the
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 4: personto the abyss, I adjure thee in the name of Heaven,
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  Speaker 4: take thyself hence, and never again show thyself in my sight.
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  Speaker 4: He arose gloomily and instantly vanished behind the masses of rock,
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  Speaker 4: end of chapter eight. Recording by James K. White Chula Vista, Chapter.
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  Speaker 2: Nine of The Wonderful History of Peter Schlomil, The Man
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  Speaker 2: Who Lost His Shadow. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 2: Ashley M. The Wonderful History of Peter Schlamiel The Man
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  Speaker 2: Who Lost His Shadow by A. Delbert von Chamisso, translated
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  Speaker 2: by Frederick Henry Hedge, Chapter nine. I sat there without
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  Speaker 2: shadow and without money, but a heavyweight was taken from
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  Speaker 2: my bosom. I was calm. Had I lost my love
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  Speaker 2: or had I in that loss felt myself free from blame?
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  Speaker 2: I believed that I should have been happy. But I
• 2:10:45
  Speaker 2: knew not, however, what I should do. I examined my pockets.
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 2: I found yet several gold pieces there. I counted them
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  Speaker 2: and laughed. I had my horses below at the inn.
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  Speaker 2: I was ashamed of returning thither. I must at least
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  Speaker 2: wait till the sun was gone down. It stood yet
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  Speaker 2: high in the heaven. I laid myself down in the
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  Speaker 2: shade of the nearest trees and fell calmly asleep. Lovely
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  Speaker 2: shapes splendid themselves before me, and charming dance into a
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  Speaker 2: pleasing dream. Mina with a flower beef in her hair
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  Speaker 2: floated by me and smiled kindly upon me. The noble
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 2: Bendle also was crowned with flowers, and went past with
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  Speaker 2: a friendly greeting. I saw many besides, and I believed
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  Speaker 2: thee too tamest. So in the distant throng, a bright
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 2: light appeared, but no one had a shadow. And what
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  Speaker 2: was stranger it had by no means a bad effect.
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  Speaker 2: Flowers and songs, love and joy under groves of palm.
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  Speaker 2: I could neither hold fast nor single out the moving,
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  Speaker 2: lightly floating, lovable forms. But I knew that I dreamed
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  Speaker 2: such a dream with joy and was careful to avoid waking.
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 2: I was already awake, but still cut my eyes closed
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  Speaker 2: in order to retain the fading apparition longer before my soul.
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  Speaker 2: I only opened my eyes. The sun stood still high
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  Speaker 2: in the heaven, but in the east I had slept
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  Speaker 2: through the night. I took it for a sign that
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  Speaker 2: I should not return to the inn. I gave up
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  Speaker 2: readily as lost what I yet possessed there, and determined
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  Speaker 2: to strike on foot into a neighboring path which led
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  Speaker 2: along the wood grown foot of the mountains, leaving it
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  Speaker 2: to fate to fulfill what had yet in store for me.
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  Speaker 2: I looked not behind me, and thought not even of
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  Speaker 2: applying to Bendel, whom I left rich behind me, and
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  Speaker 2: which I could readily have done. I considered the new
• 2:12:35
  Speaker 2: character which I should support in the world. My dress
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 2: was very modest. I had on an old black garment,
• 2:12:42
  Speaker 2: which I had already worn in Berlin, and which I
• 2:12:45
  Speaker 2: know not how had first come again into my hands
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  Speaker 2: for this journey. I had also a traveling cap on
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  Speaker 2: my head, a pair of old boots on my feet.
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  Speaker 2: I arose and cut me on the spot a naughty
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  Speaker 2: stick as a memorial, and advanced at once on my
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  Speaker 2: way wandering, I met in the wood an old peasant
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  Speaker 2: who greeted me in a friendly manner, and with whom
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  Speaker 2: I entered into conversation. I inquired, like an inquisitive traveler,
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  Speaker 2: first the way, then about the country and its inhabitants,
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  Speaker 2: the productions of the mountains, and many such things. He
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  Speaker 2: answered my questions sensibly and loquaciously. We came to the
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  Speaker 2: bed of a mountain torrent, which had spread its devastations
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  Speaker 2: over a wide tract of the forest. I shuddered involuntarily
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  Speaker 2: at the sun bright space, and allowed the countrymen to
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  Speaker 2: go first. But in the midst of the dangerous spot,
• 2:13:35
  Speaker 2: he stood still and turned to relate to me the
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  Speaker 2: history of this desolation. He saw immediately my defect and
• 2:13:42
  Speaker 2: paused in the midst of his discourse. But how does
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  Speaker 2: that happen? The gentleman has actually no shadow, alas Alas,
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  Speaker 2: replied I, sighing during a long and severe illness, my hair,
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  Speaker 2: nails and shadows aloft. Father. At my age, my hair,
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  Speaker 2: which is renewed again, is quite white, the nails very short,
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  Speaker 2: and the shadow that will never grow again. Aye aye,
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  Speaker 2: responded the old man, shaking his head no shadow. That
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  Speaker 2: is bad. That was a bad illness that the gentleman have.
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  Speaker 2: But he continued not his narrative, and at the next crossway,
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  Speaker 2: which presented itself, he left me without saying a word.
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  Speaker 2: Bitter tears trembled anew upon my cheeks, and my cheerfulness
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  Speaker 2: was gone. I pursued my way with a sorrowful heart,
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  Speaker 2: and sought no further the society of men. I kept
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  Speaker 2: myself in the darkest wood, and was many a time
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  Speaker 2: compelled in order to pass over a space where the
• 2:14:40
  Speaker 2: sun shone, to wait for whole hours lest some human
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  Speaker 2: eye should forbid me the transit. In the evening I
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 2: sought for a small inn in the villages. I went
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 2: particularly in quest of a mine in the mountains, where
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 2: I hoped to get work under the oath, since besides
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  Speaker 2: that my present situation made it imperative that I should
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  Speaker 2: provide for my support. I had discovered that the most
• 2:15:04
  Speaker 2: active labor alone could protect me from my own annihilating thoughts.
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 2: A few rainy days advanced me well on the way,
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  Speaker 2: but at the expense of my boots, whose souls had
• 2:15:13
  Speaker 2: been calculated for the groff Peter and not for the
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 2: pedestrian laborer, I was already barefoot. I must procure a
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  Speaker 2: pair of new boots the next morning. I transacted this
• 2:15:24
  Speaker 2: business with much gravity, in the village where was held awake,
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  Speaker 2: and wherein a booth old and new boots stood for sale.
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  Speaker 2: I selected and bargained long. I was forced to deny
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 2: myself a new pair, which I would gladly have had,
• 2:15:38
  Speaker 2: but the extravagant demand frightened me. I therefore contented myself
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  Speaker 2: with an old pair, which were yet good and strong,
• 2:15:45
  Speaker 2: and which the handsome blondhaired boy who kept the stall
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  Speaker 2: for present cash payment, handed to me with a friendly
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  Speaker 2: smile and wished me good luck on my journey. I
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  Speaker 2: put them on at once and left the place by
• 2:15:55
  Speaker 2: the northern gate. I was sunk very deep in my
• 2:15:59
  Speaker 2: thoughts as scarcely saw where I set my feet, for
• 2:16:02
  Speaker 2: I was plondering on the mine, which I hoped to
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  Speaker 2: reach by evening, and where I hardly knew how I
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  Speaker 2: should propose myself. I had not advanced two hundred strides
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  Speaker 2: when I observed that I had got out of the way.
• 2:16:13
  Speaker 2: I therefore looked round me and found myself in a
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  Speaker 2: wild and ancient forest, where the axe appeared never to
• 2:16:19
  Speaker 2: have been wielded. I pressed forward still a few steps,
• 2:16:22
  Speaker 2: and beheld myself in the midst of desert rocks, which
• 2:16:25
  Speaker 2: were overgrown only with moss and lichens, between which lay
• 2:16:29
  Speaker 2: fields of snow and ice. The air was intensely cold.
• 2:16:33
  Speaker 2: I looked round. The wood had vanished behind me. I
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 2: took a few strides more, and around me reigned the
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  Speaker 2: silence of death. The ice on which I stood extended
• 2:16:41
  Speaker 2: itself boundlessly, and a thick, heavy fog rested on it.
• 2:16:46
  Speaker 2: The sun stood blood ried on the edge of the horizon.
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  Speaker 2: The cold was insupportable. I knew not what had happened
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 2: to me. The benumbing frost compelled me to hasten my steps.
• 2:16:56
  Speaker 2: I heard alone the roar of distant waters. A step
• 2:17:00
  Speaker 2: and I was on the ice margin of an ocean.
• 2:17:03
  Speaker 2: Innumerable herds of seals plunged rushing before me in the flood.
• 2:17:07
  Speaker 2: I pursued the shore. I saw naked rocks, land, birch
• 2:17:11
  Speaker 2: and pine forests. I now advanced for a few minutes
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  Speaker 2: right onwards. It was stifling hot. I looked around. I
• 2:17:19
  Speaker 2: stood amongst beautifully cultivated rice fields and beneath mulberry trees.
• 2:17:24
  Speaker 2: I seated myself in their shade. I looked at my watch.
• 2:17:27
  Speaker 2: I had left the market town only a quarter of
• 2:17:29
  Speaker 2: an hour before. I fancied that I dreamed. I bit
• 2:17:33
  Speaker 2: my tongue to awake myself. I closed my eyes in
• 2:17:36
  Speaker 2: order to collect my thoughts. I heard before me singular
• 2:17:39
  Speaker 2: accents from now through the nose. I looked up two Chinese,
• 2:17:44
  Speaker 2: unmistakable from their asiatic form of countenance. If indeed, I
• 2:17:48
  Speaker 2: would have given no credit to their costume, addressed me
• 2:17:51
  Speaker 2: and their speech with the accustomed salutations of their country.
• 2:17:54
  Speaker 2: I arose and stept two paces backward. I saw them
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  Speaker 2: no more. The landscape was totally chane, trees and forests
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 2: instead of rice fields. I contemplated these trees and the
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  Speaker 2: plants which bloomed around me, which I recognized as the
• 2:18:08
  Speaker 2: growth of southeastern Asia. I wished to approach one of
• 2:18:12
  Speaker 2: these trees. One step, and again all was changed. I
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  Speaker 2: marched now like a recruit who is drilled, and strode
• 2:18:19
  Speaker 2: slowly and with measured steps. Wonderfully diversified lands, rivers, meadows,
• 2:18:25
  Speaker 2: mountain chains, steps, deserts of sand unrolled themselves before my
• 2:18:30
  Speaker 2: astonished eyes. There was no doubt of it. I had
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  Speaker 2: seven leaked boots on my feet end of chapter nine.
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  Speaker 2: Recording by Ashley M. Chapter ten of The Wonderful History
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  Speaker 2: of Peter Schlamil, The Man Who Lost His Shadow. This
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  Speaker 2: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
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  Speaker 2: public domain. For more information or its volunteer, please visit
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  Speaker 2: at LibriVox dot org. Recording by Ashley M. The Wonderful
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  Speaker 2: History of Peter Schlemiel The Man Who Lost His Shadow
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  Speaker 2: by A. Delbert von Chamisso translated by Frederick Henry Hedge.
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  Speaker 2: Chapter ten. I fell in speechless adoration on my knees
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  Speaker 2: and shed tears of thankfulness, for suddenly stood my fortune
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 2: clear before my soul. For early offense, thrust out from
• 2:19:26
  Speaker 2: the society of men, I was cast for compensation upon
• 2:19:29
  Speaker 2: nature which I ever loved. The earth was given me
• 2:19:32
  Speaker 2: as a rich garden study for the object and strength
• 2:19:35
  Speaker 2: of my life, and science for its goal. It was
• 2:19:39
  Speaker 2: no resolution which I adopted. I have since then, with
• 2:19:43
  Speaker 2: severe unremitted diligence, striven faithfully to represent what then stood
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 2: clear and perfect before my eye. And my satisfaction has
• 2:19:51
  Speaker 2: depended on the agreement of the demonstration with the original
• 2:19:55
  Speaker 2: I prepared, without hesitation, with a hasty survey, to take
• 2:19:58
  Speaker 2: possession of the feeling which I should hereafter reap, I
• 2:20:02
  Speaker 2: stood on the heights of the Bets, and the sun,
• 2:20:05
  Speaker 2: which had risen upon me only a few hours before,
• 2:20:08
  Speaker 2: now already stooped to the evening sky. I wandered over
• 2:20:12
  Speaker 2: Asia from east to west, overtaking him in his course,
• 2:20:15
  Speaker 2: and entering Africa. I gazed about me with eager curiosity
• 2:20:20
  Speaker 2: as I repeatedly traversed it in all directions, as I
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 2: surveyed the ancient pyramids and temples. In passing through Egypt,
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 2: I descried, in the desert, not far from hundred gated thieves,
• 2:20:32
  Speaker 2: the caves where the Christian Anchorites once dwelt. It was
• 2:20:36
  Speaker 2: suddenly firm and clear in me, here is thy home.
• 2:20:40
  Speaker 2: I selected one of the most concealed, which was at
• 2:20:42
  Speaker 2: the same time spacious convenience, and inaccessible to the jackals,
• 2:20:47
  Speaker 2: for my future abode, and again went forward. I passed
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 2: at the Pillars of Hercules over to Europe, and when
• 2:20:54
  Speaker 2: I had reviewed the southern and northern provinces, I crossed
• 2:20:57
  Speaker 2: from northern Asia over the polar glaciers to Greenland and America.
• 2:21:01
  Speaker 2: Traversed both parts of that constant, and the winter, which
• 2:21:05
  Speaker 2: already rained in the south, drove me speedily back northwards.
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 2: From Cape Horn. I tarried awhile till it was day
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 2: in Eastern Asia, and that for some repose continued my wandering.
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 2: I traced through both Americas the mountain chain which comprehends
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 2: the highest known inequalities on our globe. I stalked slowly
• 2:21:24
  Speaker 2: and cautiously from Summit to Summit, now over flaming volcanoes,
• 2:21:28
  Speaker 2: now snow crowned peaks, often breathing with difficulty. When retay
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 2: Mount Elias, I sprang across Bay ring straight to Asia.
• 2:21:37
  Speaker 2: I followed the western shores in their manifold windings, and
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 2: examined with especial care which of the islands there located
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 2: were accessible to me. From the peninsula of Malacca, my
• 2:21:48
  Speaker 2: boots carried me to Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Limbach. I attempted,
• 2:21:54
  Speaker 2: often with dangerous and always in vain, a northwest passage
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 2: over the lesser islets and rocks with which this sea
• 2:22:01
  Speaker 2: is studded, to Borneo and the other islands of this archipelago.
• 2:22:06
  Speaker 2: I was compelled to abandon the hope at length I
• 2:22:08
  Speaker 2: seated myself on the extremest part of Lamboc, and gazing
• 2:22:12
  Speaker 2: towards the south and east, wept as as the fast
• 2:22:16
  Speaker 2: closed grading of my prison that I had so soon
• 2:22:19
  Speaker 2: discovered my limits. New Holland, so extraordinary and so essentially
• 2:22:24
  Speaker 2: necessary to the comprehension of the Earth and its sun
• 2:22:26
  Speaker 2: woven garments of the vegetable and the animal world, with
• 2:22:31
  Speaker 2: the South Sea and its zoophyte islands, was interdiited in me.
• 2:22:35
  Speaker 2: And thus at the very outset, all that I should
• 2:22:38
  Speaker 2: gather and build up was destined to remain a mere fragment. Oh,
• 2:22:42
  Speaker 2: my Adelbert, what after all are the endeavors of men?
• 2:22:46
  Speaker 2: Often did I, in the severest winter of the Southern
• 2:22:49
  Speaker 2: Hemisphere endeavour, passing the polar glaciers westward, to leave behind
• 2:22:54
  Speaker 2: me those two hundred strides out from Cape Horn, which
• 2:22:57
  Speaker 2: sundered me, probably from Van Daven's Land and New Holland.
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  Speaker 2: Regardless of my return or whether this dismal region should
• 2:23:05
  Speaker 2: close upon me, as my coffin lid, making desperate leafs
• 2:23:08
  Speaker 2: from ice drift to ice drift, and bidding defiance to
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  Speaker 2: the cold and the sea in vain, I never reached
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  Speaker 2: New Holland. But every time I came back to Limboch,
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  Speaker 2: seated myself on its extremest peak, and wept again, with
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  Speaker 2: my face turned towards the south and east, as at
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  Speaker 2: the fast closed bars of my prison. I tore myself
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  Speaker 2: at length from this spot and returned with a sorrowful
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  Speaker 2: heart into inner Asia. I traversed that farther, pursuing the
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  Speaker 2: morning dawn westward, and came yet in the night to
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  Speaker 2: my proposed home in the base which I had touched
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  Speaker 2: upon in the afternoon of the day before. As soon
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  Speaker 2: as I was somewhat rested, and when it was day
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  Speaker 2: again in Europe, I made it my first care to
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  Speaker 2: procure everything which I wanted. First of all stopped shoes,
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  Speaker 2: where I had experienced how inconvenience it was. When I
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  Speaker 2: wished to examine near objects, not to be able to
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  Speaker 2: slacken my stride except by pulling off my boots, A
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  Speaker 2: pair of slippers drawn over them had completely the effect
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  Speaker 2: which I anticipated, And later I always carried two pairs,
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  Speaker 2: since I sometimes threw them from my feet without having
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  Speaker 2: time to pick them up again. When lions, men or
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  Speaker 2: hyenas startled me for my botanizing my very excellent watch
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  Speaker 2: was for the short duration of my passage a capital chronometer.
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  Speaker 2: Besides this, I needed a sextant, some scientific instruments, and books.
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  Speaker 2: To procure all this, I made several anxious journeys to
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  Speaker 2: London and Paris, which, auspiciously for me a mist just
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  Speaker 2: then overshadowed. As the remains of my enchanted gold was
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  Speaker 2: now exhausted. I easily accomplished the payments by gathering African ivory,
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  Speaker 2: in which however, I was obliged to select only the
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  Speaker 2: smallest tusks as not too heavy for me. I was
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  Speaker 2: soon furnished and equipped with all these, and commenced immediately
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  Speaker 2: as private philosopher my new course of life. I roamed
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  Speaker 2: about the earth, now determining the altitudes of mountains, now
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  Speaker 2: the temperature of its springs and the air. Now contemplating
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  Speaker 2: the animal, now inquiring into the vegetable tribes. I hastened
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  Speaker 2: from the equator to the pole, from one world to
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  Speaker 2: the other, compairing facts with facts. The eggs of the
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  Speaker 2: African ostrich or the northern sea fowl, and fruits, especially
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  Speaker 2: of the tropical palms and bananas were even my ordinary food.
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  Speaker 2: In the yeu of happiness. I had tobacco, and of
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  Speaker 2: human society, and the sides of love. One faithful poodle
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  Speaker 2: which guarded my cave in the thebais, And when I
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  Speaker 2: returned home with fresh treasures, sprang joyfully towards me and
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  Speaker 2: gave me still a human feeling that I was not
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  Speaker 2: alone on the earth. An adventure was yet destined to
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  Speaker 2: conduct me back amongst mankind and of Chapter ten. Recording
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  Speaker 2: by Ashley M. Chapter eleven of The Wonderful History of
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  Speaker 2: Peter Schlemil, The Man Who Lost His Shadow. This is
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  Speaker 2: Recording by Ashley M. The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemil,
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  Speaker 2: The Man Who Lost His Shadow by A. Delbert von
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  Speaker 2: Chamisso translated by Frederick Henry Hedge, Chapter eleven. As I
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  Speaker 2: once wore my boots on the shores of the North
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  Speaker 2: and gathered lichens and seaweed, an iceberre came ou awares
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  Speaker 2: upon me round the corner of a rock, Flinging off
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  Speaker 2: my slippers. I would step over to an opposite island,
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  Speaker 2: to which a naked crag which protruded midway from the waves,
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  Speaker 2: offered me a passage. I stepped with one foot firmly
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  Speaker 2: on the rock and plunged over on the other side
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  Speaker 2: into the sea. One of my slippers, having unobserved, remained
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  Speaker 2: fast on the foot. The excessive cold seas on me.
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  Speaker 2: I with difficulty, rescued my life from this danger, and
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  Speaker 2: the moments I reached land, I ran with the utmost
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  Speaker 2: speed to the Libyan deserts in order to dry myself
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  Speaker 2: in the sun. But as I was here exposed, it
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  Speaker 2: burned me so furiously on the head that I staggered
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  Speaker 2: back again, very ill, towards the north. I sought to
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  Speaker 2: relieve myself by rapid motion, and ran with swift, uncertain
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  Speaker 2: steps from west to east, from east to west. I
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  Speaker 2: found myself now in the day, now in the night,
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  Speaker 2: now in summer, now in the winter's cold. I knew
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  Speaker 2: not how long I thus reeled about on the earth.
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  Speaker 2: A burning fever glowed in my veins with deepest distress.
• 2:27:38
  Speaker 2: I felt my senses forsaking me, as mischief would have
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  Speaker 2: it in my incautious career. I now trod on someone's foot.
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  Speaker 2: I must have heard him. I received a heavy blow
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  Speaker 2: and fell to the ground. When I again returned to consciousness,
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  Speaker 2: I lay comfortably in a good bed, which stood amongst
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  Speaker 2: many other beds in a handsome hall. Some one sat
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  Speaker 2: up my head. People went through the hall from one
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  Speaker 2: bed to another. They came to mine and spake together
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  Speaker 2: about me. They styled me number twelve, and on the
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  Speaker 2: wall at my feet stood Yes, certainly, it was no delusion.
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  Speaker 2: I could distinctly read on a black tablet of marble,
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  Speaker 2: in great golden letters, quite correctly written my name, Peter Schlemil.
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  Speaker 2: On the tablet beneath my name were two other rows
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  Speaker 2: of letters, but I was too weak to put them together.
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  Speaker 2: I again closed my eyes. I heard something of which
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  Speaker 2: the subject was Peter Slemil, read aloud and articulately, but
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  Speaker 2: I could not collect the sense. I saw a friendly
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  Speaker 2: man and a very lovely woman in black dress appear
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  Speaker 2: at my bedside. The forms were not strange to me,
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  Speaker 2: and yet I could not recognize them. Some time went over,
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  Speaker 2: and I recovered my strength. I was called number twelve,
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  Speaker 2: and number twelve on accounts of his long beard passed
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  Speaker 2: for a jew, on which accounts, however, he was not
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  Speaker 2: at all. The less carefully treated that he had no shadow,
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  Speaker 2: appeared to have been unobserved. My boots, as I was assured,
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  Speaker 2: were with all that I had brought hither in good
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  Speaker 2: keeping in order to be restored to me on my recovery.
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  Speaker 2: The place in which I lay was called the Schlamelium.
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  Speaker 2: What was daily read aloud concerning Peter Schlemil was an
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  Speaker 2: exhortation to pray for him as the founder and benefactor
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  Speaker 2: of this institution. The friendly man whom I had seen
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  Speaker 2: by my bed was Bendel. The lovely woman was Mina.
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  Speaker 2: I recovered unrecognized in the Schlomelium, and learned yet farther
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  Speaker 2: that I was in Bendel's native city, where with the
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  Speaker 2: remains of my otherwise unblessed gold, he had in my
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  Speaker 2: name found in this hospital where the unhappy blessed me
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  Speaker 2: and himself maintained its superintendence. Mina was a widow an
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  Speaker 2: unhappy criminal process had cost mister Rascal's life and her
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  Speaker 2: the greater part of her property. Her parents were no more.
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  Speaker 2: She lived here as a pious widow and practiced works
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  Speaker 2: of mercy. Once she conversed with mister Bendle, at the
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  Speaker 2: bedside of number twelve. Why, noble lady, will you so
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  Speaker 2: often expose yourself to the battle atmosphere which prevails here?
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  Speaker 2: Dis fates then deal so hardly with you that you
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  Speaker 2: wish to die. No, mister Bendall. Since I have dreamed
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  Speaker 2: out my long dream and have awakened it myself, all
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  Speaker 2: is well with me. Since then I crave not and
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  Speaker 2: fear not death. Since then I reflect calmly on the
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  Speaker 2: past and the future. Is it not, also, with the
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  Speaker 2: still and inward happiness, that you, now, in so devoued
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  Speaker 2: a manner, serve your master and friend? Thank God, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: noble lady. But we have seen wonderful things. We have
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  Speaker 2: unwadily drunk much good and bitter woes out of the
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  Speaker 2: full cup now tis empty, and we may believe that
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  Speaker 2: the whole has been only a trial, and armed with
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  Speaker 2: the wisstconcernments, await the real beginning. The real beginning is
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  Speaker 2: of another fashion, and we wish not back the first
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  Speaker 2: jugglery and dround the whole, glad such as it was,
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  Speaker 2: to have lived through it. I feel also within me
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  Speaker 2: a confidence that I must now be better than formerly,
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  Speaker 2: with our own friend in me too, replied the lovely widow,
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  Speaker 2: and then passed on. The conversation left a deep impression
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  Speaker 2: upon me. But I was undecided in myself whether I
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  Speaker 2: should make myself known or depart, hence unrecognized. I took
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  Speaker 2: my resolve. I requested paper and pencil and wrote these words.
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  Speaker 2: It is indeed better with your old friends now than formerly,
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  Speaker 2: And if he does penance, it is the penance of reconciliation.
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  Speaker 2: Hereupon I desired to dress myself. As I found myself stronger.
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  Speaker 2: The key of the small wardrobe, which stood near my
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  Speaker 2: bed was brought, and I found the rind all that
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  Speaker 2: belonged to me. I put on my clothes, suspended my
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  Speaker 2: botanical case, in which I rejoiced still to find my
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  Speaker 2: northern lichens round my black garment, drew on my boots,
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  Speaker 2: laid the written paper on my bed, and as the
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  Speaker 2: door opened, I was already far on the way to
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  Speaker 2: the base. As I took the way along the Syrian
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  Speaker 2: coast on which I, for the last time had wandered
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  Speaker 2: from home, I perceived my poor Figaro coming towards me.
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  Speaker 2: This excellent poodle, who had long expected his master at home,
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  Speaker 2: seemed to desire to trace him out. I stood still
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  Speaker 2: and called to him. He sprang, barking towards me with
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  Speaker 2: a thousand moving assurances of his inmost and most extravagant joy.
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  Speaker 2: I took him up under my arm, for in truth
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  Speaker 2: he could not follow me, and brought him with me
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  Speaker 2: home Again. I found all in his old order, and
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  Speaker 2: returned gradually as my strength was recruited to my former
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  Speaker 2: employment and mode of life, except that I kept myself
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  Speaker 2: for a whole year out of the to me wholly
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  Speaker 2: insupportable polar cold, and thus my dear hamso I lived
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  Speaker 2: to this day. My boots are no worse for the wear,
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  Speaker 2: as that very learned work of the celebrated thecheusts to
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  Speaker 2: reabis justice pull to Chili at first led me to
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  Speaker 2: fear their force remains unimpaired. My strength only decays. Yet
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  Speaker 2: I have the comfort to have exerted in a continuous
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  Speaker 2: and not fruitless pursuit of one object. I have, so
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  Speaker 2: far as my boots could carry me, become more fundamentally
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  Speaker 2: acquainted than any man before me with the Earth, its shape,
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  Speaker 2: its elevations, its temperatures, the changes of its atmosphere, the
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  Speaker 2: exhibitions of its magnetic power and the life upon it,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the vegetable world. The facts I have recorded
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  Speaker 2: with the greatest possible exactness and in perspicuous order in
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  Speaker 2: several works, as stated by deductions and views. Briefly in
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  Speaker 2: several treatises, I have settled the geography of the interior
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  Speaker 2: of Africa, and of the northern polar regions, of the
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  Speaker 2: interior of Asia and its eastern shores. My historia Stripium
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  Speaker 2: planetarium Utrius Gorgus stands as the great fragments of the
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  Speaker 2: flora universalis terrae, and as a branch of my system
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  Speaker 2: of natuae. I believe that I have therein not merely augmented,
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  Speaker 2: at moderate calculation the amounts of no species more than
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  Speaker 2: one third. But I have done something for the natural
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  Speaker 2: system and for the geography of plants. I shall labor
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  Speaker 2: diligently at my fauna. I shall take care of that
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  Speaker 2: before my death. My work shall be deposited in the
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  Speaker 2: Berlin University and thee my dear Shamso have I selected
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  Speaker 2: as the preserver of my singular history, which, perhaps, when
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  Speaker 2: I have vanished from the Earth, may afford valuable instruction
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  Speaker 2: to many of its inhabitants. But thou, my friend, if
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  Speaker 2: thou wilt live among men, learn before all things to
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  Speaker 2: reverence the shadow, and then the gold wishest thou to
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  Speaker 2: live only for thyself and for thy better self. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: then thou needest no counsel. Thoughtful readers of this remarkable
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  Speaker 2: story will be pleased, no doubt, to have the hidden
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  Speaker 2: significance of it its latent lessons set before them in
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  Speaker 2: statements more explicit and distinct than have yet been made.
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  Speaker 2: The whole meaning of the narrative is summed up by
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  Speaker 2: this author in the sly and semi satirical exhortation with
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  Speaker 2: which he closes, My friend, while you live among mankind,
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  Speaker 2: learn above all things for us to reverence your shadow
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  Speaker 2: than next your money. To elucidate the full force of
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  Speaker 2: this somewhat obscure and metaphorical sentence, and raise into clear
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  Speaker 2: relief the genuine moral teachings of the narrative, we shall
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  Speaker 2: have to subdivide our ex explanation and presents its contents
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  Speaker 2: under three heads. First, which is more important to the
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  Speaker 2: prosperity and happiness of a man, the real character he
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  Speaker 2: is or the reputation he bears, the substance of his
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  Speaker 2: personal being or the shadow he casts in society. There
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  Speaker 2: are two answers. In the intrinsic world of God, consciousness
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  Speaker 2: and destiny, the former is incomparably the more momentous, but
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  Speaker 2: in the conventional world of civilization, the latter is often
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  Speaker 2: considered and thus apparently made the essential thing. Second in
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  Speaker 2: the influence exerted on our experience, respectively by money and
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  Speaker 2: by the goods that money represents, Which is superior? Which
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  Speaker 2: of these should hold the primary which the secondary rank
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  Speaker 2: in our esteem? Here likewise, there are two opposed answers.
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  Speaker 2: True insight unhesitatingly affirms that money is merely a symbol,
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  Speaker 2: while the goods of life, food, clothing, shelter, education, social
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  Speaker 2: intercourse are the reality it symbolizes. Given a full supply
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  Speaker 2: of the goods of life, and money is needless. On
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  Speaker 2: the contrary, no amount of money would be worth anything
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  Speaker 2: if unrelated with the goods of life, without which we
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  Speaker 2: can not get along at all. Therefore, what immediately supports
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  Speaker 2: life is the real substance, and this emblematic token is
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  Speaker 2: only a shadow. That is the first answer to our question.
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  Speaker 2: What a quite different answer passes currents in the ordinary
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  Speaker 2: course of the world. For under the present system of civilization,
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  Speaker 2: money commands, purchases, and distributes the goods of life. In
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  Speaker 2: this way, it becomes the imperious lord of the supplies
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  Speaker 2: for our wants, and consequently outranks them all in importance.
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  Speaker 2: In fashionable circles, a man gifted with magnificent genius and nobility,
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  Speaker 2: but destitute of money, passes for nothing, while a commonplace
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  Speaker 2: lubber with a million guineas in the bank is a king.
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  Speaker 2: The costly substance of the former is neglected because he
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  Speaker 2: has no pecuniary shadow. The rich pecuniary shadow of the
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  Speaker 2: latter is worshiped, notwithstanding his unsubstantial worthlessness. The meaning of
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  Speaker 2: the sign has disappeared in the formal hollowness of the signal,
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  Speaker 2: the substance and the shadow have changed places. Third, the
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  Speaker 2: last and deepest lesson tacitly taught by the mysterious adventures
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  Speaker 2: of Peter Schlemil, is the delightful absurdity the ridiculous logical
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  Speaker 2: incoherence involved in the supposition that a negative abstraction can
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  Speaker 2: exist by itself and operate independently of everything else. There
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  Speaker 2: are very few things in literature more delicious in their
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  Speaker 2: ironical wit and humor, than the coolness with which the
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  Speaker 2: author assumes that the shadow of a man is something
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  Speaker 2: quite free of any dependence on him who throws it,
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  Speaker 2: the perfect innocence with which poor Peter describes his shadow
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  Speaker 2: as a material object which could be picked up and
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  Speaker 2: folded together and put in the pocket, or which could
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  Speaker 2: be frozen to the ground and left their wellest owner
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  Speaker 2: walked away. It is a cutting satire on that agnostic
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  Speaker 2: philosophy which personifies mental abstractions and that substitutes them for
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  Speaker 2: the causal personality from which alone mental abstractions can be derived.
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  Speaker 2: In this manner, personality is pulverised into a series of
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  Speaker 2: states of consciousness, with no permanent identity threatening them. Soon.
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  Speaker 2: The Darwinian theory of the origin the species an arbitrary
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  Speaker 2: personification of the verbal phrase natural selection is made to
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  Speaker 2: work as an intelligent cause, to produce all the phenomena
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  Speaker 2: of evolution, and to supersede God by doing his work
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  Speaker 2: in his place. Natural selection is not a causative entity.
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  Speaker 2: It is the abstract expression for a process which is
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  Speaker 2: the resultance of the various cooperative factors involved in the
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  Speaker 2: whole systematic relationship of being. Philosophy can no more solve
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  Speaker 2: the problem of evolution without the three concepts creator, creation, creatures,
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  Speaker 2: than one can account for the appearance of a human
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  Speaker 2: shadow without presupposing the three facts a man, a light,
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  Speaker 2: and the interception of the light by the body of
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  Speaker 2: the man. The shadow of nature implies the light of God. W. R.
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  Speaker 2: Alger end of the Wonderful History of Peter Schlemil The
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  Speaker 2: Man Who Lost his Shadow via Delbert von Chamaso, translated
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  Speaker 2: by Frederick Henry Hedge, recording by Ashley M.