This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...former. As for my paper, it could easily be written between ten and two in the night, nor would it be the first time that I had burned midnight oil without disastrous results... Having decided upon this, the oppression lifted, the patter of the rain made a pleasantly intimate sound and the grey light ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ...former. As for my paper, it could easily be written between ten and two in the night, nor would it be the first time that I had burned midnight oil without disastrous results... Having decided upon this, the oppression lifted, the patter of the rain made a pleasantly intimate sound and the grey light assumed an enveloping and protecting air. All was well again except that deep down there remained a gnawing sense of weakness and defeat. I was about to attack my books with cheerfulness, if not with enthusiasm, when Taddeo himself was announced as waiting to see me downstairs. He never before had come to this house where I lived, and I descended wondering and puzzled, and the impression I got on seeing him standing in the so-called parlour was chiefly that of the ugliness of everything excepting himself. And then in his gentlest and simplest manner he spoke, and apologized for coming at all, and remarked that he had but come to say farewell, for he found himself obliged to go to Frankfurt to see an old friend of his father's who would be there the next day. "For how long?" I managed to ask, as I felt myself flushing with surprise. "Only for a week or two, three at the utmost," said Taddeo, who was looking at me with an irritating expression of angelic satisfaction. I thereupon said that I hoped he would enjoy himself, that I should be working very hard at my Referat in the meanwhile, that I should not have been able to go out with him during the next weeks anyhow, that I computed it would take me four hours a day for two weeks to do the necessary reading, and four or five days for the actual writing, --"so I shan't miss you as much as I might otherwise have done," I added, because, after all, it was Taddeo and...
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