I TOOK pleasure in small parties, and was fond of a walk in the
woods. I had an involuntary veneration for the sun, and his setting
often made me sad. Of colors I preferred blue; in eating, beef with
horse-radish; for drinking, cold water; at the theatre, comedy
and farce; of men and women, open and expressive countenances.
Hunchbacks of both sexes always had a peculiar charm for me, which I
could never define.