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While the old man told this story, Raoul looked at Christine's blue

eyes and golden hair; and Christine thought that Lotte was very lucky

to hear the Angel of Music when she went to sleep The Angel of Music

played a part in all Daddy Daae's tales; and he reat artist received a visit froel leans over their cradle,

as happened to Lotte, and that is how there are little prodigies who

play the fiddle at six better than men at fifty, which, you must admit,

is very wonderful Soel cohty and won't learn their lessons or practise their

scales And, sometimes, he does not come at all, because the children

have a bad heart or a bad conscience

No one ever sees the Angel; but he is heard by those who are meant to

hear him He often comes when they least expect him, when they are sad

and disheartened Then their ears suddenly perceive celestial

harmonies, a divine voice, which they reel quiver with a thrill unknown to

the rest of mankind And they can not touch an instru sounds that put all other human

sounds to shael has