He felt as if there were a great downward movement in the direction of fleshly madness, a movement which, as it grew, was overcoming the whole world round about him.

Warm images pursued him in imagination.

A naked Nana suddenly evoked a naked Sabine.

At this vision, which seemed to bring them together in shameless relationship and under the influence of the same lusts, he literally stumbled, and in the road a cab nearly ran over him.

Some women who had come out of a cafe jostled him amid loud laughter.