The Torrents of Spring, Chapter 23

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌‌​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌⁠He slept for some hours without waking. Then he began to dream that he was once more fighting a duel, that the antagonist standing facing him was Herr Klüber, and on a fir-tree was sitting a parrot, and this parrot was Pantaleone, and he kept tapping with his beak: one, one, one!

“One … one … one!” he heard the tapping too distinctly; he opened his eyes, raised his head … some one was knocking at h