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The chief part of it went over my head and
into the parson’s, as one says. Can it be
possible, thought I, that we human beings can
find out such things? in tha case, we must
also be able to hold out longer, before we are
put into the earth. It was merely small
miracles that he performed, and yet all as easy
as an old stocking – quite from nature. In
the time of Moses and the prophets, such a
polytechnic candidate would have been one of
the wise men of the land, and in the Middle
Ages he would have been burnt. I could not
sleep the whole night, and as I gave a
representation the next evening, and the candidate
was there again, I got into a real merry humour.
"I have heard of an actor, who when playing
the lovers’ parts, only thought of one of the
spectators; he played for her alone, and forgot
all the rest of the house; the polytechnic
candidate was my her, my only spectator, for
whom I played. And when the performance
was over, all the puppets were called forward,
and I was invited by the polytechnic candidate
to take a glass of wine with him; and he spoke
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