John Hagedorn
speaker
1,833 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 29 Mar
John Hagedorn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oh, those figures!
How well I remember them!
I made them one day to calculate the age of my father, that I might know whether I should find him still living.
And that of Mercedes, to know if I should find her still free.
After finishing that calculation, I had a minute's hope.
I did not reckon upon hunger and infidelity.
and a bitter laugh escaped the count.
He saw in fancy the burial of his father, and the marriage of Mercedes.
On the other side of the dungeon he perceived an inscription, the white letters of which were still visible on the green wall.
"'Oh, God!'
he read, preserved by memory.
"'Oh, yes!'
he cried.
"'That was my only prayer at last.'
I no longer begged for liberty, but memory.
I dreaded to become mad and forgetful.
O God, thou hast preserved my memory.
I thank thee.
I thank thee."
At this moment the light of the torch was reflected on the wall.
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