Did he express approval?
This was too much for Michael.
"My dear Hermann," he said, "we alluded very cautiously to the 'Song to Aegir' this morning, and delicately remarked that you had heard it once and I twice.

How can you care what his opinion of this opera is ?" Falbe shook his handsome head, and gesticulated with his fine hands.
"You don't understand," he said.

"You have just been talking to him himself.

I long to hear his every word and intonation.

There is the personality, which to us means so much, in which is summed up all Germany.