"Come listen my love, and hear me say, The longing that fills me from day to day, An actress I'll be, and I'll picture true, To the world a woman from every view,-- How she suffers, and how she laughs, How she prays, and loves, and chaffs, How she is when she is sinful, How she is when she is peaceful, Oh God, I pray Thee, help Thou me, To be the one that I aim to be!" And a little below the following: "May not I be Thy servant, Lord? Wilt Thou not Thy help afford?" Under this, was a verse, in imitation no doubt, of a poem they had read a few months before: "Oh, a river nymph to be, Nymph to be, Moonbeams shining full and free, Full and free, Glide along, and turn in glee, Turn in glee, Death to him who in will see, In will see, --No, that would be sin, lirum, larum, ba!--" And after repeated corrections, marks and notes: "Hop, sa, sa,--hop, sa, sa, I'll dance with every one, but they'll never catch me, ha! Tra, la, la,--tra, la, la, Be always number one, but keep them all afar!" Then distinctly and clearly, the following letter: "Dearest Henrich, Don't you think you and I are the best in the whole comedy? It gives us a great deal of annoyance, but that is nothing; I engrasserer thee to go to the masquerade with me to-morrow night; for I have never been, and I long for some real fun; here at home, it is so quiet and lonely. Du est a great rascal, Henrich,--wherever are you keeping yourself? for here sits Your Pernille." Finally in large letters, written distinctly and several times over, the following verse; she might have found it somewhere, and wanted to learn it by heart: "In my heart, an inward burning, 'Tis the Great within me yearning,-- From the hidden springs to draw,-- Loki bind in Baldur's law, Power to speak with power imbibe, High and noble thoughts describe,-- Thereto help in mercy, Thou Who the need awakens now!" There was a great deal more, but the dean did not read it. Then it was to be an actress that she had entered his house, and taken instruction from his daughter. It was with this secret aim, she was so eager to hear them read aloud, and then afterwards learn by heart. She had been deceiving them the whole time; even yesterday, when she seemed to be telling them everything, she was hiding something: when she seemed to laugh so innocently, she was lying.