nto tangible forms, ter Niklaus: a someern and fearful fat, sliger and an ugly servant in  ly resisted Goldmunds strongest impulses, o a calm, moderate, orderly, respectable life.

    Alted er, altted o question ot o judge  of oter a year to t detail all t o be kno Niklaus. ter meant muco ed  stay ay, trated ters nature and of  Niklaus alloice nor assistant to live in   out and equally rarely invited guests to  iful daugouc ried to  berict, premature abstinence of tincts ill at play, t ter could strangely transform and rejuvenate o travel for a ferange little toing up a carved pulpit,  Niklaus inely visited a w less and ill-erwards.

    As time  on, somety tied Goldmund to ters ers beautiful daugtracted ly.  to see o t determine  of ure.  overlook t t ter never again invited  ried to make any meeting . Lisbet precious, sered young girl;  o ed to marry o come from a good family, be a member of one of the higher guilds and probably have money and a house besides.

    Lisbety, so different from t of t racted Goldmunds eyes t first day. t   deciprange t violently attracted  also made ated  calm and innocence, y  cesy and ease lay a  reason  move  annoyed and provoked ly familiar to  to create a statue of  t an a a young virgin. en dreamed of seeing iful, immobile face distorted in ecstasy or pain, of seeing it unfold and yield its secret.

    t did not altogeto o capture and re-create artistically, but again and again it dre o  memories, after ion  s of love, during o