103 (The Inferno)

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animal kingdoms, till I come to man, and behind
man I discover the Creator—the great Artist
who develops as He creates, sets on foot designs
which He rejects later on, resumes plans which
have failed, and completes and multiplies primitive
forms endlessly. All is the work of His
hand. Often in the discovery of methods He
makes enormous leaps, and then Science comes
and ascertains the extent of the gaps and the
missing links, and imagines that it has found
the intermediary forms which have disappeared.

As I now consider myself safe from my persecutors,
I send my address to the Pension Orfila
in order to resume my correspondence with the
outer world. But no sooner have I lifted the
mask of my incognito than my peace is interrupted.
All kinds of things disquiet me, and
my former discomfort returns.

To begin with, articles whose use I cannot
understand are being stored away in the room
which adjoins mine on the ground-floor, and
which hitherto was vacant of furniture. An old
gentleman, with grey, malicious eyes, carries
empty boxes, strips of metal, and other
mysterious objects into it. At the same time the
noises over my head recommence. They file and

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