25th August. I must kill a man! I must--

30th August. It is done. But what a little thing! I had gone for a walk

in the forest of Vernes. I was thinking of nothing, literally nothing.

A child was in the road, a little child eating a slice of bread and

butter.

He stops to see me pass and says, “Good-day, Mr. President.”

And the thought enters my head, “Shall I kill him?”

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