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020 - Lucky Peer part 4 · Fairytales and Short Stories by Hans Christian Andersen

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Speaker 1: Section twenty of Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tales and Short Stories,
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Speaker 1: Volume six. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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Speaker 1: Christian Anderson Fairy Tales and Short Stories, Volume six, eighteen
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Speaker 1: sixty six to eighteen seventy three by Anne Christian Anderson,
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Speaker 1: translated by HP Paul Lucky Pierre.
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Speaker 2: Part four, The journey home.
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Speaker 1: Was made with glad and lightheart devoutly did Grandmother thank
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Speaker 1: our Lord that Pier was yet to outlive her. She
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Speaker 1: had delightful neighbors in the railway carriage, the apothecary and
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Speaker 1: his daughter. They talked about Pier. They loved him as
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Speaker 1: if they belonged to his family. He was to become
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Speaker 1: a great actor, said the apothecary. His voice had now
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Speaker 1: returned too, and there was a fortune in such a
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Speaker 1: throat as his. What a pleasure it was to the
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Speaker 1: grandmother to hear such words. She lived on them, she
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Speaker 1: believed them thoroughly. And so they came to the station
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Speaker 1: at the capital, where the mother met her God be
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Speaker 1: praised for the railway, said grandmother. And be praised too
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Speaker 1: that I quite forgot I was on it. I owe
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Speaker 1: that to these excellent people. And she pressed the hands
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Speaker 1: of the apothecary and his daughter. The railway is a
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Speaker 1: blessed discovery. When one is through with it, one is
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Speaker 1: in God's hands. Then she talked of her sweet boy,
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Speaker 1: who was out of all danger and housed with people
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Speaker 1: who were very well off, and kept two girls and
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Speaker 1: a man. Peer was like a son in the house,
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Speaker 1: and on the same footing with two children of distinguished families.
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Speaker 1: One of them was a dean son. The grandmother had
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Speaker 1: lodged at the post inn. It was dreadfully dear, But
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Speaker 1: then she had been invited to Madame Gabriel's. There she
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Speaker 1: stayed five days. They were angelic people, specially the mistress.
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Speaker 1: She had urged her to drink punch excellently made, but
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Speaker 1: rather strong. In about a month, would Peer, by God's help,
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Speaker 1: be strong enough to come home to the capital. He
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Speaker 1: had been flattered and has become very fine, said the mother.
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Speaker 1: He will not feel at home here in the garret.
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Speaker 1: I am very glad that the singing master has invited
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Speaker 1: him to stay with him, and yet so mourned she
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Speaker 1: It is horribly sad that one should be so poor
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Speaker 1: that one's own bairn should not find it good enough
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Speaker 1: for him in his own home. Don't say those words
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Speaker 1: to Pierre, said grandmother. You don't see into him as
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Speaker 1: I do. But he must have meat and drink anyway,
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Speaker 1: no matter how fine he has grown, and he shall
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Speaker 1: not want those so long as my hands can joggle
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Speaker 1: in the watch up. Madame Court has told me that
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Speaker 1: he can dine twice a week with her, now that
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Speaker 1: she's well off. She knows what posterity is and what
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Speaker 1: rough times are too. Has she not herself told me
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Speaker 1: that one evening in the box at the theater where
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Speaker 1: the old dance suices have a place, she felt sick
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Speaker 1: the whole day long. She only had water and a
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Speaker 1: caraway seed cake, and she was sick from hunger and
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Speaker 1: very faint water. Water, cried the other. No, some tarts,
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Speaker 1: she begged tarts. She needed something nourishing and had not
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Speaker 1: the least need of water. Now she has her old
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Speaker 1: pantries and a well spread table. Thirty miles away. Pierre
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Speaker 1: still sat but happy in the thought that he would
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Speaker 1: soon be in the city at the theater with all
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Speaker 1: his old dear friends boom. Now he rightly knew how
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Speaker 1: to value within him there was music without there was
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Speaker 1: music too. All was sunshine, the glad time of youth,
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Speaker 1: the time of hope and anticipation. Day he grew stronger,
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Speaker 1: got good spirits and color. But Madame Gabriel was much
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Speaker 1: depressed as his time for departure drew near. You're going
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Speaker 1: into great society and into the midst of many temptations.
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Speaker 1: For you are handsome that you have become in our house.
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Speaker 1: You have navy, just as I have, and that will
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Speaker 1: get you into temptation. One must not be fastidious, and
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Speaker 1: he must not be mangy fastidious like the Queen Dagmar,
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Speaker 1: who on Sunday dyed her silk sleeves and then had
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Speaker 1: her mind made up about such little things. More than
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Speaker 1: that I would never have taken on. So as I
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Speaker 1: Lucretia did, what did she stick herself? For she was
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Speaker 1: pure and honest. Everybody in the town knew that what
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Speaker 1: could she do about the misfortune which I won't talk about,
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Speaker 1: but that you, at your time of life, understand perfectly well.
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Speaker 1: So she gives a shriek and takes the dagger. There
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Speaker 1: was no use in that. I would not have done it,
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Speaker 1: nor you either, for we are both people of nature.
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Speaker 1: And that you will continue to be in your art career.
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Speaker 1: How happy I shall be to read about you in
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Speaker 1: the papers. Sometime you will come to our little town
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Speaker 1: and a peer perhaps is Romeo, but I shall not
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Speaker 1: be the nurse. Then I shall sit in the parkway
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Speaker 1: and enjoy myself. Madame had a great washing and ironing
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Speaker 1: done the week he went away, that Pierre might go
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Speaker 1: home with a whole clean wardrobe as when he came.
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Speaker 2: She drew a new strong ribbon through his amber heart.
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Speaker 1: That was the only thing she wanted for a remembrance souvenir,
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Speaker 1: but she did not get it from her Gabriel. He
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Speaker 1: received a French lexicon enriched with marginal notes by her
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Speaker 1: Gabriel's own hand. Madame Gabriel gave him roses and ribbon grass.
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Speaker 1: The roses would wither, but the grass would keep all
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Speaker 1: winter if it did not get into the water, but
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Speaker 1: was kept in a dry place. And she wrote a
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Speaker 1: quotation from Goethe as a kind of album leaf omgang
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Speaker 1: micfausen it daj elimeen gutur sit. Then she gave it
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Speaker 1: in translation intercourse with women is the foundation of good manners, Goethe.
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Speaker 2: He was a.
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Speaker 1: Great man, said she, if he had only not written fast,
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Speaker 1: For I don't understand it. Gabriel says so too. Young
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Speaker 1: Madstone presented Pierre with a not badly done drawing which
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Speaker 1: she had made of her Gabriel hanging from the gallows
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Speaker 1: with a ferule in his hand, and the inscription a
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Speaker 1: great actors, first conductor on the road of science. Primus,
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Speaker 1: the Dean's son, gave him a pair of slippers, which
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Speaker 1: the Denis herself had made, but so large that Primus
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Speaker 1: could not fill them for a year or two. Yet
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Speaker 1: upon the souls was written in ink, Remember a sorrowing friend,
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Speaker 1: and Primus, all of her Gabriel's household accompanied Pier to
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Speaker 1: the train. They shall not say that you went off
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Speaker 1: saints serdu, said Madame, as she kissed him in the
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Speaker 1: railway station. I am not concerned, said she. When one
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Speaker 1: does not do a thing secretly, one can do anything.
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Speaker 1: The signal whistle let off steam. Young Madson in Primus
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Speaker 1: shouted Hurrah. The small playthings joined.
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Speaker 2: In with them.
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Speaker 1: Madame dried her eyes and wiped them with her pocket handkerchief.
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Speaker 1: Her Gabriel said only the word veil. The villages and
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Speaker 1: stations flew by, were the people in them as happy
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Speaker 1: as peer? He thought of that, praised his good fortune,
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Speaker 1: and thought of the invisible golden apple which mother had
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Speaker 1: seen lying in his hand when he was a child.
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Speaker 1: He thought of his lucky find in the gutter, and
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Speaker 1: above all, of his new found voice, and of the
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Speaker 1: knowledge he had now acquired. He had become altogether another person.
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Speaker 1: He sat with then for gladness. It was a great
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Speaker 1: restraint for him to keep from singing aloud.
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Speaker 2: In the cars.
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Speaker 1: Now the towers of the city appeared, and the buildings
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Speaker 1: began to show themselves. The train reached the station. There
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Speaker 1: stood mother and grandmother, and one other along with them,
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Speaker 1: Madame courte Well bound quote Bookbinder Court's lady born Franson.
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Speaker 1: Neither in want nor in prosperity did she forget her friends.
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Speaker 1: She must needs kiss him as his mother and grandmother had.
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Speaker 1: Donete could not.
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Speaker 2: Come with me, said she.
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Speaker 1: He is hard at work binding a lot of books
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Speaker 1: for the King's private library.
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Speaker 2: You had your good luck, and I have mine.
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Speaker 1: I have my court and my own chimney corner with
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Speaker 1: a rocking chair. Twice a week, you are to dine
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Speaker 1: with us. You shall see my life at home. It
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Speaker 1: is a complete ballet. Mother and grandmother hardly got a
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Speaker 1: chance to talk to Pierre, but they looked on him
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Speaker 1: with eyes the chonned with delight. Then he had to
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Speaker 1: take a cab to drive to his new home at
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Speaker 1: the singing Master's. They laughed and they cried. He is
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Speaker 1: still so charming, said grandmother. He has his own good face,
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Speaker 1: just as when he went away, said mother, And he
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Speaker 1: will keep that when he is in the theater. The
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Speaker 1: cab stopped at the singing Master's door, but the master
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Speaker 1: was out. His old servant opened the door and showed
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Speaker 1: Pier up to his chamber, where all about on the
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Speaker 1: walls were portraits of composers, and on the stove a
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Speaker 1: white plaster busts stood gleaming. The old man a little dull,
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Speaker 1: but trustworthiness itself. Showed him the drawers in the bureau
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Speaker 1: and hooks for him to hang his clothes from, and
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Speaker 1: said he was very willing to clean his boots. When
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Speaker 1: the singing master came in and gave Pierre a hearty
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Speaker 1: shake of the hand in welcome here is every convenience,
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Speaker 1: said he, make yourself quite at home. You can use
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Speaker 1: my piano in the room. Tomorrow we will hear how
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Speaker 1: your voice gets on. This is our warden of the castle,
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Speaker 1: our director of household affairs. And he nodded to the
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Speaker 1: old servant. All is in order, Kyle Maria von Weber.
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Speaker 1: On the stove there has been whitened in honor of
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Speaker 1: your coming. He was dreadfully grimy. But it is not
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Speaker 1: Weber at all that is put up there. It is Mozart.
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Speaker 1: How comes he there? It is the old Webber, said
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Speaker 1: the servant. I took him myself to the plaster man,
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Speaker 1: and he has sent him home this morning.
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Speaker 2: But this is a.
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Speaker 1: Bust of Mozart, not a bust of Webber. Pardon, sir,
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Speaker 1: said the servant. It is the old Weber who has
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Speaker 1: become clean. The master does not recognize him again. Now
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Speaker 1: that he has been whitened, he could learn how it
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Speaker 1: was of the plaster man. And then he got the
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Speaker 1: answer that Webber had been broken in pieces, and so
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Speaker 1: he had sent him Mozart instead. It was all the
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Speaker 1: same thing on the stove. The first day peer was
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Speaker 1: not to sing nor play. But when our young friend
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Speaker 1: came into the parlor, where the piano stood and the
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Speaker 1: opera of Joseph lay open upon it. He sang my
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Speaker 1: fourteenth Spring, and sang with a voice that was clear
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Speaker 1: as a bell. There was something so charming about it,
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Speaker 1: so innocent and yet so strong and full. The singing
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Speaker 1: master's eyes were wet with tears. So shall it be,
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Speaker 1: and better still, exclaimed he. Now we will shut the
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Speaker 1: piano for the day.
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Speaker 2: You will want to rest.
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Speaker 1: But I must go this evening to my mother and grandmother,
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Speaker 1: for I have promised it.
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Speaker 2: And he hurried away.
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Speaker 1: The setting sun shone over the home of his childhood.
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Speaker 1: The bits of glass in the wall sparkled. It was
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Speaker 1: like a diamond castle. Mother and grandmother sat up there
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Speaker 1: in the garret, a good many steps up. But he
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Speaker 1: flew up three stairs at a time, and was at
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Speaker 1: their door, and received with kisses and embraces. It was
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Speaker 1: clean and tidy. There in the little chamber there stood
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Speaker 1: the stove, the old bear, and the chest of drawers
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Speaker 1: with the hidden treasure which he knew when he rode
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Speaker 1: his hobby horse. On the walls hung the three familiar pictures,
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Speaker 1: the King's Portrait, a picture of our Lord, the father's
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Speaker 1: silhouette cut out in black paper. It was a good
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Speaker 1: side view, said mother. But it would have been more
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Speaker 1: like him if the paper had been white and red.
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Speaker 1: For that, he was an excellent man, and Pierre was
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Speaker 1: the very picture of him.
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Speaker 2: There was so much to.
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Speaker 1: Talk about, much to tell. They were to have a
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Speaker 1: head cheese, and Madame Court had promised to look in
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Speaker 1: upon them in the evening.
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Speaker 2: But how is it.
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Speaker 1: That those two old people caught and miss Vanston ever
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Speaker 1: should have got married, asked Pierre. It has been in
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Speaker 1: their thoughts these many years, said mother.
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Speaker 2: You know he was married.
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Speaker 1: Well he did it, they say to pique, miss Franson,
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Speaker 1: who looked down on him when she was in her
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Speaker 1: high and mighty state. He got her comfortable property with
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Speaker 1: his wife. But she was dreadfully old, lively, and on crutches.
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Speaker 1: She could not die. He waited for it. It would
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Speaker 1: not have surprised me if, like the man in the story,
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Speaker 1: he had every Sunday put the old thing out in
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Speaker 1: the open air, so that our Lord might see her
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Speaker 1: and remember to send for her. Miss Franson sat still
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Speaker 1: and waited, said grandmother. I never believed she would get it.
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Speaker 1: But last year Madame Court died, and so Fransom came
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Speaker 1: to be mistress of the house. At that moment, in
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Speaker 1: came Madame Court. We were talking about you, said grandmother.
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Speaker 1: We were talking about your patience and reward. Yes, said
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Speaker 1: Madame Court. It did not come in my youth. But
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Speaker 1: one is always young, so long as one hasn't a
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Speaker 1: broken body, says my Court. He's a witty fellow. We
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Speaker 1: are old good works, he says, both in one volume,
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Speaker 1: and that with gilt top. I am so happy with
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Speaker 1: my coat and my chimney corner a porcelaine stove. There
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Speaker 1: the fire is made in the evening, and it keeps
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Speaker 1: warm all the next day. It is such a luxury.
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Speaker 1: It is as in the Ballet of Circe's Island.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember me as Circe?
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Speaker 1: Yes, you were charming, said grandmother. But how people do change?
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Speaker 1: That was not at all, said impolitely, and was not
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Speaker 1: so taken. Then came the head, cheese and the tea.
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Speaker 1: Next morning, Pier paid his visit at the merchant's. The
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Speaker 1: lady met him, pressed his hand and bagged him to
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Speaker 1: take a seat by her. In conversation with her, he
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Speaker 1: expressed his great gratitude knew that the merchant was a
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Speaker 1: secret benefactor. The lady did not know it. But it
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Speaker 1: is like my husband, said she, It is not worth
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Speaker 1: talking about. The merchant was nearly angry when Pierre touched
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Speaker 1: on this. You are on the wrong track altogether, said he,
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Speaker 1: and abruptly closed the conversation. Felix was a student and
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Speaker 1: was to go into diplomatic life. My husband called it
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Speaker 1: all folly, said the lady. I have no opinion. Providence
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Speaker 1: disposes of such things. Felix did not show himself, for
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Speaker 1: he was taking a lesson at his fencing masters.
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Speaker 2: At home, Pierre told how he had.
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Speaker 1: Thanked the merchant, but that he would not receive his thanks.
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Speaker 1: Who told you that he was what you call him
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Speaker 1: your benefactor? Asked the singing master. Mother and grandmother answered Pierre. Oh,
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Speaker 1: then it must be so you know about it, said Pierre.
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Speaker 1: I know, but you.
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Speaker 2: Will get nothing out of me.
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Speaker 1: Now come, let us sing an hour here at home
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Speaker 1: this morning. Ten Once a week there was quartet music.
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Speaker 1: Ears sulen thought were filled with the grand musical poems
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Speaker 1: of Beethoven and Mozart. For a long time Pierre had
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Speaker 1: heard no good and well given music. It was as
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Speaker 1: if a kiss of fire darted down his spine and
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Speaker 1: shot through all his nerves.
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Speaker 2: His eyes filled with tears.
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Speaker 1: Every music evening here at home was a feast to
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Speaker 1: him that made a deeper impression upon him than any
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Speaker 1: opera at the theater, where there is always something that
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Speaker 1: destroys pleasure or brings falts too strongly forward. The first
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Speaker 1: thing one knows, the words do not come out right.
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Speaker 1: They are so smooth down in the singing that they
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Speaker 1: are as intelligible to a Chinaman as to a greenlander.
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Speaker 1: Then the effect is weakened by faults in the dramatic expression,
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Speaker 1: and by a full voice sinking down in single places
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Speaker 1: to the tower of a music box, or is drolled
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Speaker 1: out in false stones. Lack of truthfulness, also in decoration
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Speaker 1: and costume is to be observed. All this was absent
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Speaker 1: from the quartet. The music poems rose in all their grandeur,
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Speaker 1: Costly hangings decorated the walls in the concert room, and
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Speaker 1: he was in the world of music, listening to the
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Speaker 1: masters in their fascination. In the great public music hall
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Speaker 1: was given one evening by a well trained orchestra. Beethoven's
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Speaker 1: Pastoral Symphony, especially the undand movement. The scene by the
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Speaker 1: brook stirred and excited our young friend. By strange power,
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Speaker 1: it carried him into the living fresh woods. The lark
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Speaker 1: and the nightingale warbled there, the cuckoo sang, What beauty
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Speaker 1: of nature? What a well spring of refreshment was there?
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Speaker 1: From this hour he knew within himself that it was
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Speaker 1: the picturesque music in which nature had reflected and the
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Speaker 1: emotions of men's hearts were set forth, that struck deepest
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Speaker 1: into his soul. Beethoven and Hayden became his favorite composers.
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Speaker 1: With the singing Master. He talked frequently of this, and
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Speaker 1: at every conversation they too came nearer ear each other,
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Speaker 1: flow rich and knowledge. This man was as inexhaustible as
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Speaker 1: Mimer's footnote too, Myma in the Scandinavian mythologies, the Goddess
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Speaker 1: of wisdom. It was from her well that Odin drew
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Speaker 1: his bucketfuls of wisdom translator end of footnote. Well, Pierre
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Speaker 1: listened to him, and just as when he was a
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Speaker 1: little boy he heard eagerly grandmother's wonder stories and tales,
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Speaker 1: now he heard those of the world of music, and
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Speaker 1: knew what the forest and the sea, told what sounds
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Speaker 1: in the old giant mound, what every bird sings with
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Speaker 1: its bill, and what the boiceless flowers breathed forth in fragrance.
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Speaker 1: The hour for singing every morning was a real hour
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Speaker 1: of delight for master and pupil. Every little song was
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Speaker 1: sung with a freshness and expression, and his simplicity. Most
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Speaker 1: charmingly did they give Schubert's travel song. The melody was true,
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Speaker 1: and as the words also, they blended together, they exalted
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Speaker 1: and illumined one another as his fitting. Pierre was undeniably
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Speaker 1: a dramatic singer. Each month showed progress in ability. Every week, Yes,
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Speaker 1: each day by day, our young friend grew in a wholesome,
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Speaker 1: happy way, knowing no one or sorrow. His trust in
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Speaker 1: mankind was never deceived. He had a child's soul and
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Speaker 1: a man's endurance, and everywhere he was received with gentle
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Speaker 1: eyes and a kind welcome. Day by day the relations
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Speaker 1: between him and the singing master grew more intimate and
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Speaker 1: more confidential. The two were like elder and younger brothers,
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Speaker 1: and the younger had all the fervor and warmth of
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Speaker 1: a young heart that the elder understood and gave in turn.
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Speaker 2: In his own.
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Speaker 1: Wise, the singing Master's character was marked by a sudden ardor,
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Speaker 1: and one saw at once that this man could hate
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Speaker 1: vehemently or love passionately. And fortunately this last governed in him.
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Speaker 1: He was moreover so placed by a fortune left him
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Speaker 1: by his father, that he did not need to take
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Speaker 1: any office which he did not content him. He did
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Speaker 1: secretly a great deal of good in a sensible way,
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Speaker 1: but would not suffer people to thank him, or indeed
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Speaker 1: to talk about it. Have I done anything, said he
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Speaker 1: It is because I could and ought to do it.
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Speaker 1: It was my duty.
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Speaker 2: His old serving.
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Speaker 1: Man, our Warden, as he called him in jest, talked
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Speaker 1: only with half a voice, and he gave expression to
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Speaker 1: his opinion about the master of the house. I know
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Speaker 1: what he gives away between a year and a day,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know the half. The King ought to
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Speaker 1: give him a star to wear on his breast, but
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Speaker 1: he would not wear it. He would get mad as lightning.
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Speaker 2: If I know him.
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Speaker 1: Should one notice him for his honesty, He's happy beyond
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Speaker 1: the rest of us in his faith, which he has.
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Speaker 2: He's just like a man out of the Bible.
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Speaker 1: And at that the old fellow gave an additional emphasis,
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Speaker 1: as if Beerre could have some doubt, he felt and
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Speaker 1: understood well that the singing master was a true Christian
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Speaker 1: in good earnest, an example for everyone. Yet the man
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Speaker 1: never went to church. And when Peer one day mentioned
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Speaker 1: that next Sunday he was going with his mother and
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Speaker 1: grandmother to our Lord's stable, and asked if the singing
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Speaker 1: master never did the same, the answer came no. It
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Speaker 1: seemed as if he would say something more, as if
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Speaker 1: indeed he had some confidence to impart to pier, But
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Speaker 1: it was not said. One evening he read aloud from
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Speaker 1: the papers of the beneficence of two or three persons
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Speaker 1: who were mentioned, and that led him to speak of
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Speaker 1: good deeds and their reward. When one does not think
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Speaker 1: of it, it is sure to come. The reward for
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Speaker 1: good friends is like dates that are spoken of in
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Speaker 1: the Talmud. They ripen late and then asked sweet Talmud
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Speaker 1: asked Peer, what sort of a book is That? A
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Speaker 1: book was the answer from which more than one seed
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Speaker 1: of thought has been implanted in Christianity, wrote the book
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Speaker 1: wise men in the earliest time, wise in various nations
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Speaker 1: and religions. Here is wisdom enclosed in such words as
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Speaker 1: the finds in Solomon's proverbs. What kernels of truth? One
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Speaker 1: reads here that men round about the whole earth, in
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Speaker 1: all the centuries, have always been the same. What kernels
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Speaker 1: of truth one reads here? That men around the whole earth,
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Speaker 1: in all the centuries, have always been the same. Thy
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Speaker 1: friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend.
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Speaker 1: Be discreet in what you say is found here. It
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Speaker 1: is a piece of wisdom for all times. No one
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Speaker 1: can jump over his own shadow is here too, and
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Speaker 1: wear shoes when you talk over thorns.
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Speaker 2: You ought to read this book.
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Speaker 1: You will find in it the proof of culture, more
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Speaker 1: clearly than you will discover cultivation of the soil in
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Speaker 1: layers of the earth. Me as a Jew, it is
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Speaker 1: besides an inheritance from my father's jew, said Pier, are
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Speaker 1: you a Jew?
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Speaker 2: Did you not know that?
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Speaker 1: How strange that we too should not have spoken of
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Speaker 1: it before to day? Mother and grandmother knew nothing about
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Speaker 1: it either. They had never thought anything about it, but
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Speaker 1: always had known that the singing Master was an honorable,
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Speaker 1: unexceptionable man. It was in the providence of God that
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Speaker 1: Pier had come in his way next to our Lord.
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Speaker 1: He owed him all his fortune. And now the mother
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Speaker 1: let out a secret which she had carried faithfully a
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Speaker 1: few days only, and which under the pledge of secrecy,
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Speaker 1: had been told her by the merchant's lady. The singing
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Speaker 1: Master was never to know that it was out. It
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Speaker 1: was he who had paid for Peer's support and education
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Speaker 1: at her Gabriel's from the evening when at the merchant's
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Speaker 1: house he heard Peers the ballet Samson. He alone had
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Speaker 1: been his real friend and benefactor, but in secret.
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Speaker 2: End of
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Speaker 1: The Lucky Peer Part four