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"I hear two distinct knocks following each other," cried Lenz; "I will give a signal in answer; I will set the clocks all playing. "
He did so, but the confusion of sounds quite stupefied him; even at this moment of deadly anguish, the discord was insupportable to him. In his excitement, he had injured the mechanism of the largest musical clock, which went to his heart.