observing the people I met and who passed me, to reading the placards on
the wall, noted even the impression of a glance thrown at me from a
passing tram-car, let each bagatelle, each trifling incident that crossed
or vanished from my path impress me.

If one only had just a little to eat on such a lightsome day! The sense of
the glad morning overwhelmed me; my satisfaction became ill-regulated, and
for no definite reason I began to hum joyfully.

At a butcher's stall a woman stood speculating on sausage for dinner. As I
passed her she looked up at me. She had but one tooth in the front of her
head. I had become so nervous and easily affected in the last few days
that the woman's face made a loathsome impression upon me. The long yellow
snag looked like a little finger pointing out of her gum, and her gaze was
still full of sausage as she turned it upon me. I immediately lost all
appetite, and a feeling of nausea came over me. When I reached the
market-place I went to the fountain and drank a little. I looked up; the
dial marked ten on Our Saviour's tower.

I went on through the streets, listlessly, without troubling myself about
anything at all, stopped aimlessly at a corner, turned off into a side
street without having any errand there. I simply let myself go, wandered
about in the pleasant morning, swinging myself care-free to and fro
amongst other happy human beings. This air was clear and bright and my
mind too was without a shadow.

For quite ten minutes I had had an old lame man ahead of me. He carried a
bundle in one hand and exerted his whole body, using all his strength in
his endeavours to get along speedily. I could hear how he panted from the
exertion, and it occurred to me that I might offer to bear his bundle for