155 (The Inferno)

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proud of the distinction of being persecuted by
misfortune, and am never weary of repeating,
“See! how I have suffered.” Before my relatives
I accuse myself of living in too much
luxury, and my rose-coloured room seems to me
to be a satire upon me. They notice my sincere
repentance, and overwhelm me with kindnesses
and little indulgences. In brief, I am one of the
elect; Swedenborg has said it, and confident of
the protection of the Eternal, I challenge the
demons to combat.

On the eighth day which I spend in my
rose-coloured room the news arrives that my
mother-in-law’s mother, who lives on the bank of the
Danube, is ill. She has a pain in the liver
accompanied with vomiting, sleeplessness, and
attacks of palpitation at night. My aunt whose
hospitality I enjoy is summoned thither, and I
am to return to my mother-in-law in Saxen. To
my objection that the old lady has forbidden
it, they reply that she has withdrawn her order
of expulsion, so that I am free to arrange my
residence where I like. This sudden change of
mind astonishes me, and I hardly dare to
attribute it to her illness. The next day she gets
worse. My mother-in-law gives me in the name

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