Perhaps, yes, surely, I shall find her quietly sleeping.

She will awaken, she will be glad, and in her words and looks I shall see that nothing has happened, that all this is vain.

Ah, if it would only so turn out!' 'But no, that has happened too often! Now the end has come,' a voice said to me.
"And again it all began.

Ah, what torture! It is not to a hospital filled with syphilitic patients that I would take a young man to deprive him of the desire for women, but into my soul, to show him the demon which tore it.

The frightful part was that I recognized in myself an indisputable right to the body of my wife, as if her body were entirely mine.