I have to use it while it is fresh, for I find that Italian words do not keep in this climate.

They fade toward night, and next morning they are gone.

But it is no matter; I get a new one out of the paper before breakfast, and thrill the domestics with it while it lasts.

I have no dictionary, and I do not want one; I can select words by the sound, or by orthographic aspect.

Many of them have French or German or English look, and these are the ones I enslave for the day's service.