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240 THE CONFESSION OF A FOOL
My friend’s obstinacy always remained inexplicable to
me, although I quite well understood at the time that a
secret struggle was being fought between my wife and
him, the motive of which I could not guess. Maybe he
was better informed than I, and had penetrated my secret
with the clear-sightedness which frequently accompanies
first impressions ; moreover, he was himself married to a
woman of strange morals.
Marie did not feel at home in Paris, where her hus-
band’s genius was generally acknowledged, and after three
months’ stay she hated the beautiful city. She was
indefatigable in warning me of "the false friends who
would one day bring me misfortune."
She was again expecting to become a mother, and again
life with her was unbearable. But this time I had no
reason to doubt the paternity of the expected baby.
Our stay in Paris came to an end ; we broke up our
tents and slowly made our way to Switzerland.
Isn^t It Enough ?
It does not matter very much that the wealthy man did
not ask Jesus what he should do in order to solve the
problem of life, for Jesus would very likely have replied
in the same way in which He replied to the question
relating to the Kingdom of Heaven :
" Go and sell all
thou hast and give it to the poor." But it is a pity that
the wealthy man did not carry out this suggestion, and
above all things that he did not live to see a scorching day
in June in the year 1885 in the humble form of a sixty-
year-old coster who pushed a heavy barrow down the
Avenue de Neuilly, ceaselessly calling out in a voice
trembling with hunger and increasing age
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