It has been four weeks since I had seen a newspaper, and this lack seemed to give life a new charm and grace, and to saturate it with a feeling verging upon actual delight.

Then came a change that was to be expected: the appetite for news began to rise again, after this invigorating rest.

I had to feed it, but I was not willing to let it make me its helpless slave again; I determined to put it on a diet, and a strict and limited one.

So I examined an Italian paper, with the idea of feeding it on that, and on that exclusively.

On that exclusively, and without help of a dictionary.