Certain images sprang up in his mind, and, watching their shiftings, he muttered incoherently: "Here, this is better than anything! Take everything, and be done with it! And--as for me--I shall be free to go anywhere in the wide world! I cannot live like this.

I feel as though weights were hanging on me, as though I were all bound.

There--I must not go, this I must not do.

I want to live in freedom, that I may know everything myself.

I shall search life for myself.