"I am very safe; I don't repeat things." But he hoped Felix would not risk too much.
Felix was laughing at his answer.
"It 's odd to hear you telling me how to be happy.

I don't think you know yourself, dear uncle.

Now, does that sound brutal ?" The old man was silent a moment, and then, with a dry dignity that suddenly touched his nephew: "We may sometimes point out a road we are unable to follow." "Ah, don't tell me you have had any sorrows," Felix rejoined.

"I did n't suppose it, and I did n't mean to allude to them.

I simply meant that you all don't amuse yourselves." "Amuse ourselves?
We are not children." "Precisely not! You have reached the proper age.