The Inferno

Synopsis

This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: II ST. LOUIS LEADS ME TO ORFILA Through the whole winter I continue my chemical experiments in a modestly furnished room, remain all day at home, and go to my evening meal in a restaurant where artists of different nationalities meet. Afterwards I visit the family, whose society, through a momentary fit of puritanism, I had abjured. The whole noisy set of artists are there, and I am compelled to put up with what I would fain avoid?free and easy manners, loose morals, deliberate and fashionable irreligion.