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188 which she likes very much, and the room that she rented formerly will now be let. I should greatly like to find another tenant for her."

Mme. Wildenhoff turned upon me directly with these unexpected words:

"Wouldn't you like to lodge with Idalia? She plays so beautifully; and that family life must, I fancy, bore you by now."

It then occurred to me that Mme. Wildenhoff's intention was to get me away from Imszanski! Was I right? Possibly.

"I shall think it over," I answered in a pleasant tone. "Though indeed I like just as much to hear Martha play."

This staying up all night long nearly once every forty-eight hours or so fatigues me beyond measure. They—that is, all the others—have nothing to do; they rise at noon, and enjoy plenty of money and leisure; and their greatest enjoyment is talking interminably about the deepest problems of existence. But for me, what with having battle with sleep in the morning, to walk so very far to my office through mud and slush, and to sit motionless at my desk for so many hours, those nights charge me with a burden very hard to bear.