there will be place when the present-day communities break up together.”
It was late when we made a halt before a garden by the river.
“We live here,” said Demian. “Come and see us soon! We shall expect you.”
I cheerfully wended my long way home through the night, which had become cold.
Here and there brawling students were lurching through the town.
I had often felt, sometimes with a feeling of privation, sometimes with scorn, the contrast between their curious sort of gaiety and my lonely life.
But now, tranquil and strong in a sense of secret power I felt as never before
how little that affected me, how far removed was their world from mine.
I reminded myself of officials of my native town, worthy old gentlemen,
who clung to memories of the semesters they had passed in drinking, as they would to memories of a blissful paradise,
and who practised a cult, calling up reminiscences of the vanished “freedom” of their University life
with all the seriousness which some poet or other romantic would devote to an account of his childhood.
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