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"How did the son of Rudolph receive this first part?
With unmixed feeling. Smiling, a jew, he heard with pleasure and saw the unbroken kitchen window." (U17.809)

"Recite the second part (minor) of the legend.

Then out there came the jew's daughter
And she all dressed in green.
"Come back, come back, you pretty little boy,
And play your ball again." (U17.812)

"I can't come back and I won't come back
Without my schoolfellows all.
For if my master he did hear
He'd make it a sorry ball." (U17.817)

"She took him by the lilywhite hand
And led him along the hall
Until she led him to a room
Where none could hear him call." (U17.821)

"She took a penknife out of her pocket
And cut off his little head
And now he'll play his ball no more
For he lies among the dead.

How did the father of Millicent receive this second part?
With mixed feelings. Unsmiling, he heard and saw with wonder a jew's daughter, all dressed in green." (U17.825)

"What other infantile memories had he of her?
15 June 1889. A querulous newborn female infant crying to cause and lessen congestion." (U17.864)

"A child renamed Padney Socks she shook with shocks her moneybox: counted his three free moneypenny buttons, one, tloo, tlee: a doll, a boy, a sailor she cast away:" (U17.866)

"blond, born of two dark, she had blond ancestry, remote, a violation," (U17.868)

"Herr Hauptmann Hainau, Austrian army, proximate, a hallucination, lieutenant Mulvey, British navy." (U17.869)

"What endemic characteristics were present?
Conversely the nasal and frontal formation was derived in a direct line of lineage which, though interrupted, would continue at distant intervals to more distant intervals to its most distant intervals ." (U17.871)

"What memories had he of her adolescence?
She relegated her hoop and skippingrope to a recess. On the duke's lawn, entreated by an English visitor, she declined to permit him to make and take away her photographic image (objection not stated)." (U17.875)

"On the South Circular road in the company of Elsa Potter, followed by an individual of sinister aspect, she went half way down Stamer street and turned abruptly back (reason of change not stated). On the vigil of the 15th anniversary of her birth she wrote a letter from Mullingar, county Westmeath, making a brief allusion to a local student (faculty and year not stated)." (U17.878)

"What second departure was contemporaneously perceived by him similarly, if differently?
A temporary departure of his cat.

Why similarly, why differently?
Similarly, because actuated by a secret purpose:" (U17.886)

"the quest of a new male (Mullingar student) or of a healing herb (valerian)." (U17.890)

"Differently, because of different possible returns to the inhabitants or to the habitation.

In other respects were their differences similar?
In passivity, in economy, in the instinct of tradition, in unexpectedness.

As?
Inasmuch as leaning she sustained her blond hair for him to ribbon it for her (cf neckarching cat)." (U17.891)

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