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"Are you rich?"

"In fancy, in dreaht they were all rich"

"Only one or two of us"

"Is it very large, this America?"

"France, Spain, Prussia would be loneso to boast of"

"Did you fight in the war?"

"Yes Do you like music?"

"Were you ever wounded?"

"A scratch or two, nothing to speak of But do you like music?"

"Very, very much When they play Beethoven, Bach, or Meyerbeer, ach, I see, in the leaves, the rain, the wind, the streae to him that he had not noticed it at first, the almost Hanoverian purity of her speech and the freedoe peasant is diffident, with a vocabulary of feords, ignorant of art or music or where the world lay

"What is your naood name; it is famous, too"

"Goethe used it"