though by different roads. Yet that, unfortunately, is paltering with principles."
Oh, I should not object, so far as I am concerned, to any such "paltering!" As things stand, I am working too much: I might work less and do something better. … All my talent is quite thrown away on those everlasting accounts.
My dream is now, how to make more money. And this renders me somewhat uneasy; perhaps it is on account of pecuniary circumstances that I am now considering the possibility of marriage with Janusz, in case Roslawski …
This I should not like. Not because it would show my character in an ignoble light. That's nonsense. No, but it would mark how little I care for the creature I could take on such terms.
I am of those whose sin is greater than the sin of Eve and Adam: I have eaten of the fruit of the knowledge that there is neither good nor evil.
Yes, for I have gone on—on to the very end. Every one has something he can call his own. Sufferers magnify in their mind the power of
