28 (The Inferno)

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my side lends me an energy and confidence which
impel me to unwonted efforts of which I was
formerly incapable.

A bankrupt as regards society, I am born into
another world where no one can follow me.
Things which before seemed insignificant attract
my attention, my nightly dreams assume the
form of premonitions, I regard myself as a
departed spirit, and my life proceeds in a new
sphere.

After having demonstrated the presence of
carbon in sulphur, I have to demonstrate the
presence of hydrogen and oxygen which, according
to analogy, ought to be found in it.

Two months pass in calculations and surmises
till the apparatus necessary for making
the experiments is exhausted. A friend advises
me to go to the Sorbonne laboratory, where
strangers are admitted. But my timidity and
shyness of crowds does not permit me to think
of it; I suspend my experiments and take a
rest.

One fine spring morning I wake up in good
spirits. I walk through the Rue de la grande
Chaumière to the Rue de Fleurs, which leads
to the Jardin du Luxembourg. The small,

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