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Quote from "The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters" (1859)

"'(...) Oh, yes, ah, me - I am still here. I am old and poor. Deliver me, kind Christ!'"

Such was the prayer of Anna Dorothea in the miserable mud hut that was allowed to stand only for the sake of the stork.

Source: Jean Hersholt's translation of "The Wind Tells about Valdemar Daae and His Daughters"

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1. Prayer
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Keywords: Poor old woman, Christ, prayer

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