saips of firs jut so t tly aer nig beat lonely in tly back and listened to t a le, or cloister ile ars, among tcient, steady trees.

    No, , or, even if  of o learn Viktors . Per of ected, terious beauty and eeriness; again and again o listen to tbeat sounded anguising. Fears  way up o be moving.

    After a long time Viktor a like ; ;your turn to catcomorro;

    Goldmund obeyed; retc on tremely tired but did not fall asleep. s kept s, a feeling  admit to rust t o do  o  old ter and brazen beggar, about Lydia. unity to get rid of him.

    After an or bent over s and seams; Goldmund froze  move, ;Go a;

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    quot;No Goldmund. Again and again  it, as  over t;Dear Mot; he heard himself say.

    Suddenly  bear to stay a moment longer.  across t s  as he could.

    t  for anot, aimless and anguis of ance.

    Lost in ted, sno ser,  a pat food and almost  sleep, o a bottomless despair. ; several times exion overcame  t o fall asleep, to die in t again and again somet. Desperately, greedily ed and intoxicated in t of bitter  by trengt to die, by trous force of to live. it-blue iny, dried-up berries off ttle, bitter stuff, to