But do you like music ?" "Very, very much.

When they play Beethoven, Bach, or Meyerbeer, _ach_, I seem to live in another country.

I hear music in everything, in the leaves, the rain, the wind, the stream." It seemed strange to him that he had not noticed it at first, the almost Hanoverian purity of her speech and the freedom with which she spoke.
The average peasant is diffident, with a vocabulary of few words, ignorant of art or music or where the world lay.
"What is your name ?" "Gretchen." "It is a good name; it is famous, too." "Goethe used it." "So he did." Carmichael ably concealed his surprise: "You have some one who reads to you ?" "No, Herr.

I can read and write and do sums in addition." He was willing to swear that she was making fun of him.

Was she a simple goose-girl?
Was she not something more, something deeper?
War-clouds were forming in the skies; they might gather and strike at any time.