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and some very typical ones, connected with wisdom 

 versus stupidity, and perhaps vice versa. Does not 

 this expression sound odd, queer on iny lips! "confes- 

 sions?" It does if you take it to the letter, and with 

 its religious meaning, but that confession shall not be 

 snatched from me by any priest of any denomination 

 whatever, it will be between us, between the whole 

 community, and if it chance not to meet your appro- 

 bation, you need not give me the absolution, and I 

 promise you that I shall not be angry with you for 

 your intolerance, on condition you will not either bear 

 me any malice for what I may say to clear my con- 

 science, to have sinned in the eyes of some, but not in 

 mine, for it may happen that what one of us calls virtue 

 I may consider it as a venial vice. . . . Now that I 

 have done my introductory prayer, let us begin : In 

 1827" I was only between 19 and 20 years old, half 

 between the two. I lived in one of the suburbs of 

 Paris, within a few hundred yards of the city walls, 

 intra muros (within the walls), but I boarded extra 

 muros (outside the walls), so as not to pay double price 

 for wine, when I drank any, for I did not care much 

 for it at that time, but necessity compelled me not to, 

 yet I had to do it on account of the water not agreeing 

 with new comers. A bottle of wine that cost 16 cents 

 in Paris cost only 8 cents outside owing to city duties, 

 and when a man gets 50 francs ($10) a month he can- 



