At the aunt's request, seconded by Professor Valerius, Daae consented to give the young viscount some violin lessons.

In this way, Raoul learned to love the same airs that had charmed Christine's childhood.

They also both had the same calm and dreamy little cast of mind.

They delighted in stories, in old Breton legends; and their favorite sport was to go and ask for them at the cottage-doors, like beggars: "Ma'am ..." or, "Kind gentleman ...

have you a little story to tell us, please ?" And it seldom happened that they did not have one "given" them; for nearly every old Breton grandame has, at least once in her life, seen the "korrigans" dance by moonlight on the heather.
But their great treat was, in the twilight, in the great silence of the evening, after the sun had set in the sea, when Daae came and sat down by them on the roadside and, in a low voice, as though fearing lest he should frighten the ghosts whom he evoked, told them the legends of the land of the North.