worn out and finished. But what things I have learned,
what abysses of wisdom have I not plumbed! How
great a thing it is to have acquired the true wisdom, to
have become in the highest sense of the word a
civilised man, to have become
raffiné, vicieux, » etc. etc.
"
Messieurs et dames, I perceive that you are sad. Ah,
mais la vie est belle-you must not be sad. Be more gay, I
beseech you!
"
Fill high ze bowl vid Saurian vine, Ve
vill not sink of semes like zese!
« Ah, que la vie est belle
! Listen,
messieurs et dames, out
of the fullness of my experience I will discourse to you
of love. I will explain to you what is the true meaning
of love-what is the true sensibility, the higher, more
refined pleasure which is known to civilised men alone.
I will tell you of the happiest day of my life. Alas, but I
am past the time when I could know such happiness as
that.