this anxiety of soul... and the sleeplessness.

Strange, this philosopher — looking out at her from his remote, remote age, with his piercing eyes and his mighty, boundless understanding, to rebuke her and shake her violently, soaring into the depths of her conscience and standing her on her feet for the first time, to see her own self naked, small, trifling.

Lamia had put her finger on the source of the ailment! How much she had needed to come to know that Greek teacher before those philosophers, the moderns; then she would have gained years lost in wantonness and folly... She had been living in a state of bohemianism and unconsciousness, without will and without a guiding mind, on the word of those who say: 'Man is at the mercy of his passions'... Woe to her! Into what a torrent she had flung herself, and against what emptiness she had collided... In vain she squandered a precious handful of the flower of her life, only to come back tonight humbled and surrendering, and open her eyes dazzled, like one waking from a troubling dream.

She understands now that man has a mind to master his passions, to bridle them and direct them, so that they do not bolt with him and drag him to perdition and the fire. She understands that once her mind, with conscious will, is master of the situation, her ship will have a captain to steer it to the safe shore.

She flung out her arms and stretched, the thrill of victory sweeping over her. She had won the battle! Her crisis now lay clear, its knots undone. Here she is, little by little, recovering her serenity and her calm of nerves. She breathed from the depths, as though a mountain had rolled from her back... and yawned!

And the first violet heralds of the dawn had begun to line the horizon with kohl when Lamia blew out her candle with the breath of a conquering soldier and hurried to pull her quilt up to her ears.. She no longer needed the red pill!

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