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When they came it was as if the lord of the world had arrived, and had brought all the glories of its kingdoms along; and when they went they left a calm behind which was like the deep sleep which follows an orgy. Eseldorf was a paradise for us boys. We were not overmuch pestered with schooling.
It was not because I was proud of my travels and excited about having been around the big world to China, and feeling contemptuous of Bartel Sperling, "the traveler," as he called himself, and looked down upon us others because he had been to Vienna once and was the only Eseldorf boy who had made such a journey and seen the world's wonders.
Eseldorf had its proportion of such people, and ordinarily their good and gentle influence was felt, but these were not ordinary times on account of the witch-dread and so we did not seem to have any gentle and compassionate hearts left, to speak of.
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