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II.
ST. LOUIS LEADS ME TO ORFILA
Through the whole winter I continue my
chemical experiments in a modestly furnished
room, remain all day at home, and go to my
evening meal in a restaurant where artists
of different nationalities meet. Afterwards I
visit the family, whose society, through a
momentary fit of Puritanism, I had abjured. The
whole noisy set of artists are there, and I am
compelled to put up with what I would fain
avoid—free and easy manners, loose morals,
deliberate and fashionable irreligion. There is
much talent and quickness of wit among these
people, together with a flow of wild spirits which
has won them a sinister reputation. At any
rate, I am in a domestic circle; they are kind
to me and I am grateful to them, although I
shut my eyes and ears to their little affairs
which, after all, have nothing to do with me.
Had I avoided these people out of unjustifiable
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