![]() A swarm of tiny noxious animals had bored a way into my inner man and hollowed me out.įragments of the teachings of my childhood ran through my memory. I had become, as it were, too languid to control or lead myself whither I would go. A dog that dashed by me, a yellow rose in a man’s buttonhole, had the power to set my thoughts vibrating and occupy me for a length of time. I could not sit down on a bench by myself or set my foot any place without being assailed by insignificant accidents, miserable details, that forced their way into my imagination and scattered my powers to all the four winds. Why had the last months pressed so strangely hard on me? I failed to recognize my own happy temperament, and I met with the most singular annoyances from all quarters. How gaily and lightly these people I met carried their radiant heads, and swung themselves through life as through a ball-room! And I, walking in the very midst of these people, young and newly-fledged as I was, had already forgotten the very look of happiness. ![]() I wandered up Castle Hill and fell into a reverie. I stuck my elbows closely to my sides, tried to make myself look small, and slipped unperceived past some acquaintances who had taken up their stand at the corner of University Street to gaze at the passers-by. Bowing and laughing folk walked up and down Carl Johann Street. ![]() The whole town began to get on its legs as it approached the fashionable hour for promenading. ![]() The sun stood in the south it was about twelve. ![]()
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