--- title: The Old Bachelor's Nightcap — Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen · full text with trees · page 3 description: The Old Bachelor's Nightcap, «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: There is a street in Copenhagen with a very strange name. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/page/3/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/) / The Old Bachelor's Nightcap # The Old Bachelor's Nightcap · page 3 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/) [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/page/2/) **3** - [201](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/201/) — It was the tree which he and Molly had planted together. - [202](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/202/) — The fragrant leaves of the tree fell upon him and cooled his burning brow; upon his parched lips they seemed like refreshing bread and wine; and as they rested on his breast, a peaceful calm stole over him, and he felt inclined to sleep. " - [203](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/203/) — I shall sleep now," he whispered to himself. " - [204](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/204/) — Sleep will do me good. - [205](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/205/) — In the morning I shall be upon my feet again, strong and well. - [206](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/206/) — Glorious! wonderful! - [207](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/207/) — That apple-tree, planted in love, now appears before me in heavenly beauty." - [208](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/208/) — And he slept. - [209](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/209/) — The following day, the third day during which his house had been closed, the snow-storm ceased. - [210](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/210/) — Then his opposite neighbor stepped over to the house in which old Anthony lived, for he had not yet showed himself. - [211](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/211/) — There he lay stretched on his bed, dead, with his old nightcap tightly clasped in his two hands. — checked by a teacher - [212](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/212/) — The nightcap, however, was not placed on his head in his coffin; he had a clean white one on then. - [213](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/213/) — Where now were the tears he had shed? - [214](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/214/) — What had become of those wonderful pearls? - [215](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/215/) — They were in the nightcap still. - [216](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/216/) — Such tears as these cannot be washed out, even when the nightcap is forgotten. - [217](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/217/) — The old thoughts and dreams of a bachelor's nightcap still remain. - [218](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/218/) — Never wish for such a nightcap. - [219](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/219/) — It would make your forehead hot, cause your pulse to beat with agitation, and conjure up dreams which would appear realities. - [220](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/220/) — The first who wore old Anthony's cap felt the truth of this, though it was half a century afterwards. - [221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/221/) — That man was the mayor himself, who had already made a comfortable home for his wife and eleven children, by his industry. - [222](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/222/) — The moment he put the cap on he dreamed of unfortunate love, of bankruptcy, and of dark days. " - [223](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/223/) — Hallo! how the nightcap burns!" he exclaimed, as he tore it from his bead. - [224](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/224/) — Then a pearl rolled out, and then another, and another, and they glittered and sounded as they fell. " - [225](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/225/) — What can this be? - [226](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/226/) — Is it paralysis, or something dazzling my eyes?" - [227](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/227/) — They were the tears which old Anthony had shed half a century before. - [228](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/228/) — To every one who afterwards put this cap on his head, came visions and dreams which agitated him not a little. - [229](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/229/) — His own history was changed into that of Anthony till it became quite a story, and many stories might be made by others, so we will leave them to relate their own. - [230](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/128/230/) — We have told the first; and our last word is, don't wish for a "bachelor's nightcap." 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