I have a reason for writing this tale, or it would not become public property. Once, in a moment of confidence, I made a friend acquainted with some curious circumstances connected with one period of my life. I believe I asked him to hold his tongue about them - he says not. Anyway, he told another friend, with embellishments I suspect; this friend told another, and so on and on. Воспроизведено в оригинальной авторской орфографии издания 1884 года (издательство "Tauchnitz").