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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The Nubian immediately descended and opened the carriage door.
It was a lovely starlit night.
They had just reached the top of the hill Villejuve.
from which Paris appears like a somber sea tossing its millions of phosphoric waves into the light.
Waves indeed more noisy, more passionate, more changeable, more furious, more greedy, than those of the tempestuous ocean.
Waves which never rest as those of the sea sometimes do.
Waves ever dashing, ever foaming, ever engulfing what falls within their grasp.
The Count stood alone, and then a sign from his hand, the carriage went on for a short distance.
With folded arms he gazed for some time upon the great city.
When he had fixed his piercing look on this modern Babylon, which equally engages the contemplation of the religious enthusiast, the materialist, and the scoffer.
"'Great city,' murmured he, inclining his head, and joining his hands as if in prayer.
LESS THAN SIX MONTHS HAVE ELAPSED SINCE FIRST I ENTERED THY GATES.
I BELIEVE THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD LED MY STEPS TO THEE AND THAT HE ALSO ENABLES ME TO QUIT THEE IN TRIUMPH.
THE SECRET CAUSE OF MY PRESENCE WITHIN THY WALLS I HAVE CONFIDED ALONE TO HIM WHO ONLY HAS THE POWER TO READ MY HEART.
GOD ONLY KNOWS THAT I RETIRE FROM THEE WITHOUT PRIDE OR HATRED, BUT NOT WITHOUT MANY REGRETS.
He only knows that the power confided to me has never been made subservient to my personal good or to any useless cause.
O great city, it is in thy palpitating bosom that I have found that which I sought, like a patient miner.
I have dug deep into thy very entrails to root out evil thence.
Now my work is accomplished.
My mission is terminated.
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