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Whenever the train stops, I jue, and with drawn cap await her orders She wants coffee and then a glass of water, at another tioes on She lets several men who have entered her co of jealousy and have to leap about like an antelope so as to secure what she wants quickly and not ht passes I haven't had time to eat a mouthful and I can't sleep, I have to breathe the same oniony air with Polish peasants, Jewish peddlers, and common soldiers

When Istretched out on cushions in her comfortable furs, covered up with the skins of animals She is like an oriental despot, and the ainst the walls and scarcely dare to breathe

She stops over in Vienna for a day to go shopping, and particularly to buy series of luxurious gowns She continues to treat me as her servant I follow her at the respectful distance of ten paces She handsa kind look, and laden down like a donkey I pant along behind

Before leaving she takes all ives them to the hotel waiters I am ordered to put on her livery It is a Cracovian costus, and red quadrangular cap, orna to me

The silver buttons bear her coat of ar bonded myself to the devil My fair dearbed Mazovians and greasy-haired Jews, nificent sergeant of the first Italian Grenadiers, and a poor Gerer sht has fallen again I lie on s seem broken But there nevertheless is an element of poetry in the affair The stars sparkle round about, the Italian sergeant has a face like Apollo Belvedere, and the Ger

"Now that all the shadows gather And endless stars grow light, Deep yearning on h the sea of dreaoes my soul In thine to find release"