![]() He spoke in a clear voice which had been trained in drill grounds and had echoed sweetly in royal halls, and yet he was speaking in a manner so new to himself and so strangely moving that after his first sentence he had to make a pause. “Righteousness and bliss shall kiss one another.” ![]() “Mercy and truth, my friends, have met together,” said the General. The reader may not have noticed, but hardly one instance of actual dialogue has taken place in the story’s first thirty pages. There is a moment in “Babette’s Feast,” one of the best-known stories by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen), when a character named General Lorens Loewenhielm stands up, slightly drunk at the end of a lavish dinner, and gives a speech to the other guests, all elderly members of a pious religious sect. Reproduced here for educational purposes only. ![]() Brian Gingrich Babette’s Feast (Babettes gæstebud, 1987), dir. ![]()
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