You will tell me where you live and I will order the driver to take you home to your mother, since," she added, "you really find me ugly." As she spoke I raised my eyes.

Perhaps my drunkenness deceived me, or perhaps I had not seen her face clearly before, but suddenly I detected in that unfortunate girl a fatal resemblance to my mistress.

I shuddered at the sight.

There is a certain shudder that affects the hair; some say it is death passing over the head, but it was not death that passed over mine.
It was the malady of the age, or rather was it that girl herself; and it was she who, with her pale, halfmocking features and rasping voice, came and sat with me at the end of the tavern room.
The moment I perceived her resemblance to my mistress a frightful idea occurred to me; it took irresistible possession of my muddled mind, and I put it into execution at once.
I escorted that girl to my home; and I arranged my room just as I had been wont to do when my mistress was with me, for I was dominated by a certain recollection of past joys.
Having arranged my room to my satisfaction, I gave myself up to the intoxication of despair.

I probed my heart to the bottom in order to sound its depths.