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"Ah! the drunken men are coming out of the taverns," he thought,

"it's past two o'clock," and at once he leaped up, as though

someone had pulled him from the sofa.

"What! Past two o'clock!"

He sat down on the sofa--and instantly recollected everything!

All at once, in one flash, he recollected everything.

For the first moment he thought he was going mad. A dreadful

chill came over him; but the chill was from the fever that had

begun long before in his sleep. Now he was suddenly taken with

violent shivering, so that his teeth chattered and all his limbs

were shaking. He opened the door and began listening--everything

in the house was asleep. With amazement he gazed at himself and

everything in the room around him, wondering how he could have

come in the night before without fastening the door, and have

flung himself on the sofa without undressing, without even taking

his hat off. It had fallen off and was lying on the floor near

his pillow.