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The bell

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In the narrow streets of a large town people often heard onforinI don't know the evening when the sun was setting, and his last rays gave a golden tint to the chimney-pots, a strange noise whosewhowhichI don't know resembled the sound of a church bell; it only lastlastedI don't know an instant, for it was lost in the continual roar of traffic and hum of voices which rose from the town. 'The evening bell is ringing,' people are usedusedusesI don't know to say; 'the sun is setting!' Those who walked outside the town, where the houses iswaswereI don't know less crowded and interspersed by gardens and little fields, saw the evening sky more bettermuch bettermuch bestmore bestI don't know, and heard the sound of the bell much more clearly. It seemed as though the sound came tocome fromcome tocame fromI don't know a church, deep in the calm, fragrant wood, and hither and thither people looked with devout feelings.

A considerable time elapselapsedI don't know : one said at the otherat the othersto the otherI don't know, 'I really wonder if there is a church out in the wood. The bell has indeed a strange sweet sound! letshallwillI don't know we go there and see what the cause of it is?' The rich drove, the poor walked, but the way seemed to them extraordinarily long, and when they arrivedthey will arrivethey arriveI don't know at a number of willow trees on the border of the wood they sat down, looked up into the greatsgreatI don't know branches and thought they were now really in the wood. A confectioner toonfromI don't know the town also came out and put up a stall there; then came another confectioner who hung a bell over thereherourhisI don't know stall, which was covered with pitch to protect it from the rain, but the clapper waitswaittedis waitingwas waitingI don't know. When people came home they used to say that it had been very romantic, and thatwhatI don't know really means something else than merely having tea. Three persons declared that they had gonewenthave gonegoI don't know as far as the end of the wood; they had always heard the strange sound, but there it seemed to themthemat themfor themI don't know as if it came from the town. One of them wrote verses about the bell, and said that it was aslikeI don't know the voice of a mother speaking to an intelligent and beloved child; no tune, he said, was sweeter thanthatI don't know the sound of the bell.