Out of which I am making a grave and important affair, simply because of my love for some pathos in life. …
Why, Janusz himself can be "distinguished" on certain occasions.
Madame, (he writes),
May I venture to remind you that the period chosen by you, within which to give me a definite answer, will have come to an end on Monday next?
I beg to remain, Madame,
Yes, the time has come. I shall go to Obojanski's to-night.
Here I have come, with fevered lips and ice-cold heart, only to find that Roslawski went away but a quarter of an hour ago, having to dine with some friends this evening.
I still can smell in the air the brand of cigars that he smokes. … My eye-brows and lids are twitching as if agitated by some witch's spell.
Yet I experience not the least disappointment at not finding him here: rather a sense
