Effi Briest
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1:04:03
That's new to me.
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Associations are strange things.
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They're based not onIy
on personaI experience...

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but on things one has heard
or just happens to know.

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You're a weII-read man, Major...
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but there's one poem
I suspect you don't know.

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It's caIIed God's Wall.
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God's Wall?
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A nice titIe.
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What is it about?
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It's a modest story and quite short.
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In some war, there was a winter campaign...
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and a terrified oId widow prayed to God...
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to buiId a waII round her to protect
her from her country's enemies.

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God Iet the house be buried in snow,
so that the enemy simpIy marched past.

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Yes....
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Effi....
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She feIt as if she were about to faint.
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Did you sleep well?
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Yes.
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You're fortunate.
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l can't say the same for myself.
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l dreamt your carriage fell into the river...
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and Crampas was trying to save you.
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l have to put it that way.
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And he went down with you.

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