The Happiness of a Drinking Man

Just a glass of beer, a piece of dry bread, and in one moment, the brain is stronger, the mind is clearer and the will is firm. Phew, how utterly petty it all is. But in spite of this scornful reflection, he was by now looking cheerful, as though he were suddenly set free from a terrible burden. And he gazed round in a friendly way at the people in the room. He had a dim foreboding that this happier frame of mind was also not normal. There were few people at the time in the tavern. Besides the two drunken men he had met on the steps, a group consisting of about five men and a girl with a concert

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