Grimm_,' I exclaimed, with a loud cry; and starting up, I ran to him and fell on his neck.

He sat down, and ate a poor meal, you may be sure.

As for me, I could not open my lips either to eat or to speak.

He was next to me, and I kept pressing his hand and gazing at him."[235] Mademoiselle Voland appears on some occasion to have compared Diderot with his friend.

"No more comparison, I beseech you, my good friend, between Grimm and me.