Of what use to try to tell him that the past is dead, that the present is passing, that the future alone is positive! Through Crillon's paternal admonishment I feel the threat of the others.

It is not yet hostility around me; but it is already a rupture.

With this truth that clings to me alone, amid the world and its phantoms, am I not indeed rushing into a sort of tragedy impossible to maintain?
They who surround me, filled to the lips, filled to the eyes, with the gross acceptance which turns men into beasts, they look at me mistrustfully, ready to be let loose against me.

Little more was lacking before I should be as much a reprobate as Brisbille, who, in this very place, before the war, stood up alone before the multitude and tried to tell them to their faces that they were going into the gulf.
* * * * * * I move away with Marie.

We go down into the valley, and then climb Chestnut Hill.