In spite of this Barinskoi would
not see that his invitation was only accepted out of politeness.
There were many things reserved and unsociable about Barinskoi; for
example, he never invited any one to his rooms. He called for his
letters at the post office. The address he gave, and under which he
was entered at the University office, described him as a newspaper
correspondent, which agreed with his daily readings and writings. He
frequently disappeared for two or three days, after which he emerged
again, as it were, dirtier than before, with reddened, half-closed
eyelids, weak voice, and general bloodless appearance. A conjecture
as to where he was during this time was suggested by a smell of
spirits, beside the fact that students from the laboratory had often
seen him late at night at the corner of the Leipziger and
Friedrichstrasse in earnest consultation with some unhappy creature
of the streets, and that he was often seen haunting remote streets
in the eastern districts in the company of women.
Barinskoi declared he was the correspondent of a large St.
Petersburg paper, and that he made great efforts to remove the
prejudices of Russia against Germany, and to give his readers a
respect for their great neighbors.
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