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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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feel better here outside in the garden beyond the
power of my enemies, and my heart beats quite
regularly. While reflecting thus, I hear someone
cough in the room adjoining mine. It is at
once answered by a low cough from the room on
the other side. Doubtless it is a signal, just like
the one I heard my last night in the Pension
Orfila. I try to open forcibly the glass-door of
the ground-floor room, but the bolt holds.

Wearied by the useless fight against invisible
powers, I sink on a garden seat. Sleep has pity
on me, so that under the stars of a beautiful
summer night I fall asleep among the roses
whispering in the warm airs of July.

*



The sun awakes me, and I thank Providence
which has saved me from death. I pack my
things, and mean to go to Dieppe to find shelter
with some friends, whom I have neglected as I
have all others, but who are considerate and
generous towards the fallen and shipwrecked.
When I ask to speak to the directress of the
house, she is not visible, and sends a message
to say she is unwell. I might have expected that
she would be involved in the plot against me.
I leave the house with a curse on the head of
my knavish enemies, and call on heaven to send

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