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here again Nina in black  too late!

[He calls hoarsely]

Nina!

[There is no answer]

In other room doesn’t hear  just as well

[He turns to the bookcase and pulls out the first volume his hands come on and opens it at random and begins to read aloud sonorously like a child whistling to keep up his courage in the dark]

Stetit unus in arcem

Erectus capitis victorque ad sidera mittit

Sidereos oculos propiusque adspectat Olympum

Inquiritque Iovem;”