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VTII
After her confinement she changed her tactics.
Whether she was influenced by fear of the consequences
of her perverted passions, or whether her female instincts
had been reawakened, I cannot say. She paid a great
deal of attention to young men ; but she did it too openly
to make me really jealous.
Without an engagement, with nothing to occupy her
time, full of whims, despotic, she was bent on war with
me to the knife.
One day she tried to prove to me that it was cheaper
to keep three servants than two. As I thought it waste
of time to argue with a lunatic, I simply turned her out
of my room.
She swore vengeance. She engaged a third maid, who
was absolutely superfluous in the house. Consequently
no work was done at all. Everything was turned upside
down, the three girls quarrelled all day long, drank beer
and entertained their lovers at my expense.
To complete the picture of my matrimonial happiness,
one of my children fell ill. This brought two more
servants into the house and the visits of two doctors. At
the end of the month I had to face a deficit of five
hundred crowns. I redoubled my energies to meet the
expenses, but the strain on my nerves was beginning to
tell.
She was for ever taunting me with having squandered
her more than doubtful dowry, and forced me to make an
allowance to her aunt in Copenhagen. This woman
accused me of having wasted her "fortune," and her
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