Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.
We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.
And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.
