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His small, finely chiselled face was lost within a huge fur collar. In our street we are acquainted with two other Professors, but our "sfollato" is perfectly genuine of his kind and looks the part. He is an authority on all subjects dealing with the past and his language is at times beautiful and inclined to be oratorial; then, again, he is like an old-fashioned encyclopaedia whose pages fairly tremble at the slightest breath of a new idea. One of the other two Professors is middle-aged. His specialty is biology and I believe he has written volumes on this subject. He too was made much of by his wife, a rich and titled Englishwoman who returned to her family in England when war broke out. We caught sight of this disconsolate biologist seated alone at table whereon was displayed delicate crockery and glass-ware ornate with family crests.

October 20th. With the meeting of Eden, Hull and Stalin at Moscow the Bolshevik push has been intensified. We hear that a deep breach has been made in the German lines. Jean Harold Paquis whose eloquence this evening was bereft of all but a blunt rendering of facts, send us to bed apprehensive.

Shall Hiteler seek consolation in Nietzshe's words: "What matter about thyself, Zarathustra, say thy word and break into pieces!"