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Isak Dinesen. Last Tales

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THE CARDINAL’S FIRST TALE

THE CLOAK

NIGHT WALK

OF HIDDEN THOUGHTS AND OF HEAVEN

TALES OF TWO OLD GENTLEMEN

THE CARDINAL’S THIRD TALE

THE BLANK PAGE

THE CARYATIDS, AN UNFINISHED TALE

II

III

IV

ECHOES

A COUNTRY TALE

COPENHAGEN SEASON

CONVERSE AT NIGHT IN COPENHAGEN

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Her son, who had known her in no other quality than that of a great lady of the world, later in life tried to form for himself a picture of the young Benedetta.

The Prince, at first watching the career of his wife with surprise and anxiety, before he knew of it was overpowered and laid low. In the course of years he came to accept, in sublime glow, the role of a saintly, dethroned king. Possibly his vanity even found a kind of melancholy gratification in the renown and glory of his palazzo and in the envy of other palazzos. To the eyes of the world the princely spouses from then on remained on befitting terms of stately amicability.

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