A Concert, a Catastrophe, and a Confession (ch.19)

You can read "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight" and "Bingen on the Rhine" here and here respectively.

My goodness! They are both long poems. I can't imagine memorizing either of them.

I had to laugh when I read this. "I make so many mistakes. But then just think of all the mistakes I don't make, although I might."

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world."


pung sleigh - a sleigh with a box like appearance
sated with dissipation - sated (satisfied fully) dissipate (to spend or use wastefully) I still have no clue????
furtive - shifty
arduous - requiring great exertion