I went to see him in a few days, and he said to me:

"You do not know how happy I am; I am madly in love with her; but then

she is ... she is ..." He did not finish his sentence, but he put the

tips of his fingers to his lips with a gesture which signified:

"Divine! delicious! perfect!" and a good deal more besides.

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