However, it is no use going over them.
It is I who amassed them; and I know what they are worth! At once everything and nothing.

What do signs prove, however striking they may be, in cases where one ought to disbelieve even the evidence of one's own senses?
Albert is a victim of the most remarkable coincidences; but one word might explain them.

There have been many such cases.

It was even worse in the matter of the little tailor.

At five o'clock, he bought a knife, which he showed to ten of his friends, saying, 'This is for my wife, who is an idle jade, and plays me false with my workmen.' In the evening, the neighbours heard a terrible quarrel between the couple, cries, threats, stampings, blows; then suddenly all was quiet.
The next day, the tailor had disappeared from his home, and the wife was discovered dead, with the very same knife buried to the hilt between her shoulders.