Overwhelmed with despair and anguish, I fell upon the stones of
the street, repeating aloud "There is no way out."

- Hinton, Jan. 1877





V. The Bird and the Cat *




I dreamt that I had a beautiful bird in a cage, and that the cage
was placed on a table in a room where there was a cat. I took the
bird out of the cage and put him on the table. Instantly the cat
sprang upon

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* This dream and the next occurred at a moment when it had almost
been decided to relax the rule of privacy until then observed in
regard to our psychological experiences, among other ways, by
submitting them to some of the savants of the Paris Faculty,--a
project of which these dreams at once caused the abandonment. This
was not the only occasion on which a dream bore a twofold aspect,
being a warning or a prediction, according to the heed given to it. (Ed.)
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him and seized him in her mouth. I threw myself upon her and strove