Accept your new existence without reserve.

Give yourself up to the tranquil delights of this subterranean life.

If one is in good health, one preserves it; if one has lost one's health, one recovers it here.

That is what is happening to your fellow countryman.
Yes, the best thing you can do is to resign yourself to your lot." Thereupon this giver of good advice leaves me, after saluting me with a friendly gesture, like a man whose good intentions merit appreciation.

But what irony there is in his words, in his glance, in his attitude.