Something of the soul of Ezekiel and of Jeremiah was in them.
Unfortunately, turning his golden-spectacled eyes toward the table, he discovered Vivian Bell's book.
"Oh, 'Yseult La Blonde'," he exclaimed, bitterly.

"You are reading that book, Madame?
Well, learn that Mademoiselle Vivian Bell has stolen an inscription from me, and that she has altered it, moreover, by putting it into verse.

You will find it on page 109 of her book: 'A shade may weep over a shade.' You hear, Madame?
'A shade may weep over a shade.' Well, those words are translated literally from a funeral inscription which I was the first to publish and to illustrate.

Last year, one day, when I was dining at your house, being placed by the side of Mademoiselle Bell, I quoted this phrase to her, and it pleased her a great deal.

At her request, the next day I translated into French the entire inscription and sent it to her.