To me-- "To stand aloof and view the fight Is all the pleasure of the game." My interest even in Judith has been of a detached nature.

I have been like Faust.

I might have said: _"Werd' ich zum Augenblicke sagen Werweile doch! Du bist so schon!_ Then may the devil take me and do what he likes with me!" I have never had the least inclination to apostrophise the moment in this fashion and request it to tarry on account of its exceeding charm.
Never until this afternoon, when the deep summer enchantment of the turquoise day was itself ensorcelised by the witchery of a girl's springtide.
"You have three, four, five--oh, such a lot of grey hairs," said Carlotta, looking down on my reclining head.
"Many people have grey hair at twenty," said I.
"But I have none." "You are not yet twenty, Carlotta." "Do you think I will have them then?
Oh, it would be dreadful.

No one would care to have me." "And I?
Am I thus the object of every one's disregard ?" "Oh, you--you are a man.

It is right for a man.