o me? You  been consecrated eitaken any vo, but you  yourself to toucaken? Isnt t  you t you  you long ago, in your , make t  yet been made  you feel bound by it forever? Arent you exactly like me?quot;

    quot;No, Goldmund, I am not like you, not in too, am keeping an unspoken vo respect you are rig I am in no  I am going to say to you noerly unlike me you are.quot;

    Goldmund unned; Narcissuss expression and tone permitted no contradiction. .  ake  all seriously? Did  a crange friendship were beginning all over again.

    Narcissus no longer  about ture of Goldmunds secret. It   possible t t ter antagonism in suciful, ? t be a secret enemy  t urn  ural urges. to be discovered, o be conjured up and made visible; only t be defeated.

    Mean neglected by rayed.  nature. Even tain t no vice could be suspected ed to see toget seemed t tting t from tly, as tocrats for  in keeping er spirit, not Cian.

    Many t tions, slander—reac Daniel. y years of cloister life; to cloister life and  tradition, sometimes amusing, sometimes a danger. ed, c intervene. Suc, exclusive friends undangerous, but since  for an instant doubt its purity, o let it take its course. If it  been for Narcissuss exceptional position among students and teac  ated to place a feing rules bet  good for Goldmund to es and to be in close association only eac  permissible to disturb traordinary, ed Narcissus, eacion?  proved eaco partiality and neglectfulness, t  to be   knes, of rating, perly pres