Digital heart book

He cannot carry it about with him, like a
satchel, in the bottom of a cab, nor can he cohabit in
a garret ten by fifteen with so momentous a companion.
It was my first idea to leave her behind at my
departure. There, in her birthplace, she might lend an
inspiration, methought, to my successor. But the
proprietor, with whom I had unhappily quarrelled,
seized the occasion to be disagreeable, and called upon
me to remove my property. For a man in such straits as
I now found myself, the hire of a lorry was a
consideration; and yet even that I could have faced, if
I had had anywhere to drive to after it was hired.
Hysterical laughter seized upon me as I beheld (in
imagination) myself, the waggoner, and the Genius of
Muskegon, standing in the public view of Paris, without
the shadow of a destination; perhaps driving at last to
the nearest rubbish-heap, and dumping there, among the
ordures of a city, the beloved child of my invention.
From these extremities I was relieved by a seasonable
offer, and I parted from the Genius of Muskegon for
thirty francs.


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