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in a dream, and shows me a piece of money of
uncommon size. On my asking where this
remarkable piece came from, he answers, “From
America,” and disappears.
The next day I receive a letter from America
from a friend whom I had heard nothing of for
twenty years, informing me that an order in
connection with the Chicago Exhibition had
been following me in vain all over Europe. It
carried with it an honorarium of 12,000 francs,
an enormous sum for me in my desperate
circumstances, which I could very easily find use
for. This 12,000 francs would have secured my
future, and no one besides myself would have
guessed that the loss of this money was a
punishment for an evil deed which I had committed
out of anger at the treachery of a literary
colleague.
In another dream of wider significance I saw
Jonas Lie, [1] with a gilt bronze clock curiously
ornamented. Some days later, when I went to
walk on the Boulevard St. Michel, a watch-maker’s
shop-window attracted my attention.
“Jonas Lie’s clock!” I exclaimed aloud.
It was indeed the same. It was crowned by
a celestial globe on which two female figures
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