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CHAPTER II
"THAT whole night I was excited and feverish, I tossed about on my bed unable to find any rest; and when at last I fell asleep it was only to be haunted by the most lascivious and erotic dreams.
"Once, for instance, it seemed to me that Teleny was not a man, but a woman; moreover, he was my own sister.
"'But you never had a sister, had you?'
"'No, of course not. Some day I shall tell you the reason why I am an only son. In this hallucination, I—like Amon the son of David,—loved my sister, and I was so vexed that I fell sick, for I thought it not only hard—but a most heinous act—to do something to her. I therefore
