John Hagedorn

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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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I loaded my weapons.

I collected every means of attack and defense.

I inured my body to the most violent exercises—

my soul to the bitterest trials.

I taught my arm to slay, my eyes to behold excruciating sufferings, and my mouth to smile at the most hard spectacles.

Good-natured, confiding, and forgiving as I had been, I became revengeful, cunning, and wicked, or rather, immovable as fate.

Then I launched out into the path that was open to me,

I overcame every obstacle and reached the goal.

But woe to those who stood in my pathway.

Enough, said Mercedes, enough, Edmund.

Believe me, that she who alone recognized you has been the only one to comprehend you.

And had she crossed your path, and had you crushed her like glass, still, Edmund, still she must have admired you.

LIKE THE GULF BETWEEN ME AND THE PAST.

THERE IS AN ABYSS BETWEEN YOU, EDMOND, AND THE REST OF MANKIND.

AND I TELL YOU FREELY THAT THE COMPARISON I DRAW BETWEEN YOU AND OTHER MEN WILL EVER BE ONE OF MY GREATEST TORTURES.

NO, THERE IS NOTHING IN THE WORLD TO RESEMBLE YOU IN WORTH AND GOODNESS.

BUT WE MUST SAY FAREWELL, EDMOND, AND LET US PART.

"'Before I leave you, Mercedes, have you no request to make?'

said the Count.

"'I desire but one thing in this world, Edmund—the happiness of my son.

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