Memoir by Adeline Ravoux
(1956)
... Vincent walked bent, holding his stomach, again exaggerating
his habit of holding one shoulder higher than the other. Mother
asked him: “M. Vincent, we were anxious, we are happy to
see you to return; have you had a problem?”
He replied in a suffering voice: “No, but I
have…” he did not finish, crossed the hall, took
the staircase and climbed to his bedroom. I was witness to this
scene. Vincent made such a strange impression on us that Father
got up and went to the staircase to see if he could hear
anything.
He thought he could hear groans, went up quickly and found
Vincent on his bed, laid down in a crooked position, knees up
to the chin, moaning loudly: “What's the matter,”
said Father, “are you ill?” Vincent then lifted his
shirt and showed him a small wound in the region of the heart.
Father cried: “Malheureaux, [unhappy man] what have you
done?”
“I have tried to kill myself,”... |
