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I was simply a humble attaché
at the embassy.
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I didn't become ambassador
until the end of my career.
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Then it was Liechtenstein.
Delightful spot...
:25:13
...but hardly the top
of the diplomatic ladder.
:25:18
Oh, that's fantastic!
:25:20
What an incredible life
you must have had.
:25:23
Please. Julius.
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- You make me feel my years less.
- How old are you?
:25:29
No longer young, Daniel.
No longer young.
:25:32
- Your wife Emilienne?
- She has been gone 12 years now...
:25:37
...to this very day.
I was on my way to the cemetery...
:25:41
...when I ran into a large,
round object.
:25:46
A football, I think it is called.
:25:48
- I never saw it.
- I said I was sorry.
:25:51
She won't mind my being a little late.
I go to see her every week...
:25:56
...with all the breath,
smiles and tears of all of my life.
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- And if God choose...
- And if God choose...
:26:05
...I shall but love thee
better after death.
:26:08
- You know it?
- Elizabeth Browning, my favorite poet.
:26:10
- She was ours too.
- Fantastic!
:26:14
Yes! She's no longer so much
in the fashion...
:26:18
...but how we loved her.
I'll tell you a little story.
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When Emilienne and I lived in Venice...
:26:25
...we rented a small villa.
One Sunday the plumbing went out...
:26:31
...and I couldn't get a plumber so I
went down to make some repairs myself.
:26:38
And crawling about in the dark
I came upon some papers.
:26:44
Poetry.
:26:46
- Have you guessed?
- No.
:26:48
We had been living in the
Brownings' villa and didn't know it!
:26:53
- Fantastic! Were they new poems?
- No, mostly drafts...
:26:57
...which improved
when they were published.
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Some of the
Sonnets from the Portuguese...