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t to become a quiet, prayerful monk of ter. all rengtalent drove torangely sad to find tiful goal so difficult to attain. Occasionally o detect eful moods and tendencies in racted, uno learn. aste against tin teacient es. And confusing o fig Daniel. Yet at moments almost certain t Narcissus loved ing for him.
Narcissuss ts ed t boy as a friend. e, ; o adopt, lead, enligrengto bloom. But all of t of all, tied and aste for teacoo frequently, fell in love en enoug ticements and cajoleries tal. ood tter no emptation to love to make o run a caressing , never. Moreover, as a mere tutor, not tion or ty of a teacious and co conducting y years to forbidding ernly all partiality too forcing o particular fairness and concern for turally repugnant to o t ed rict life. Only secretly, during unguarded moments, did ter empting a friends could only be a danger; never let it toucence. to serve to serve t, superior, self-negating guidance of only of oward ual goals.
For a year or more, Goldmund udent at ter scimes es under trees in tyard and under tiful cnut tree—ball games, races, sno tired and sick and often o stay arate.
to e met during a fistfigo study Euclid t er. It er supper, an ion o play in tories, to alk in ter cloister yard.
quot;Goldmund,quot; airs after ;I to tell you somet youre sucudent—youll probably end up a bis you must give me your tell teac;
Goldmund immediately gave er udent radicted t. But, as anyed tten one; ry to eva