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They dragged him off.Each vied with the other in laying his claws upon him.But the three beggars did not loose their hold and tore him from the rest, howling, "He belongs to us!"
doublet yielded its last sigh in this struggle .
While traversing the horrible place, his vertigo vanished. After taking a few steps, the sentiment of reality returned to him.He began to become accustomed to the atmosphere of the place.At the first moment there had arisen from his poet's head, or, simply and prosaically, from his empty stomach, a mist, a vapor, so to speak, which, spreading between objects and himself, permitted him to catch a glimpse of them only in the incoherent fog of nightmare,--in those shadows of dreams which distort every outline, agglomerating objects into unwieldy groups, dilating things into chimeras best apartment rental websites, and men into phantoms.Little by little, this hallucination was succeeded by a less bewildered and exaggerating view. Reality made its way to the light around him, struck his eyes, struck his feet, and demolished, bit by bit, all that frightful poetry with which he had, at first, believed himself to be surrounded.He was forced to perceive that he was not walking in the Styx, but in mud, that he was elbowed not by demons, but by thieves; that it was not his soul which was in question, but his life (since he lacked that precious conciliator, which places itself so effectually between the bandit and the honest man--a purse).In short, on examining the orgy more closely, and with more coolness, he fell from the witches' sabbath to the dram-shop.