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PART IV
The main destination of my journey was Paris, where
I hoped to meet old friends, well acquainted with my
eccentricities ; congenial spirits who understood my moods,
knew all about my whims, admired my courage, and were
consequently in a position to gauge accurately the tem-
porary state of my mind. In addition to this some of the
foremost of the Scandinavian poets had just taken up a
permanent abode in Paris ; I meant to claim their pro-
tection and with their help defy Marie’s sinister schemes ;
for she intended to have me shut up in a lunatic asylum.
During the whole journey she continued her hostilities
and treated me as a person altogether beneath contempt,
whenever we were without witnesses. She was always lost
in thought, absent-minded, indifferent. In vain I took
her sight-seeing in the towns where we were forced to
spend the nights ; she took no interest in anything, saw
nothing, hardly listened to me. My attentions bored her ;
she seemed to be fretting for something. But for what ?
For the country where she had suffered, in which she had
not left one single friend, but—a lover, perhaps ?
During the whole time she behaved like the most
unpractical and ignorant of women ; she displayed none of
the qualities of the organiser and manager of which she
had boasted so much. She insisted on staying at the most
expensive hotels, and for the sake of one night she often
had the whole furniture rearranged ; a badly served cup
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