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Updated: May 12, 2025
For this reason army officers and other persons of rank frequented his place, and he was somewhat of a favorite with them. In short, though he lived in a mean little alley, those important personages were not averse to calling at his house. That Bendet had an only child, a daughter. She was considered beautiful and educated. I had not known her. In my day they spoke ill of her.
Then mother took me and Solomon up to the garret, and ordered us not to venture outside. Here the old man interrupted himself by a soft sigh, and continued: To a great extent it was my own fault, wild boy that I was. I broke my mother's injunction. In the alley, near the house of my parents, there lived a wine-dealer, Bendet by name. Good wine was to be found in his cellar.
"And what was your father's name?" I asked again, trembling. "Bendet." "Was he a wine-dealer?" "Yes; and how do you know it? Are you of the same town?" I told her my father's name, and we clasped hands in surprise. While the old man was telling his tale, the clouds dispersed. I looked upwards: the dark sky spread vaultlike above us studded with stars, some in groups, some far apart.
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