You are like a thirsty man beside a delicious spring, and are not able to drink.

It is pure Tantalus." "Your analogy does not hold good.

What I am looking at does not give me the sensation of a delicious spring, and does not make me thirsty." Paul looked at him surprised.

"Still you are a man of flesh and blood, and the sight of all these charming girls must give you pleasure." "You know I am engaged to only one girl here, and her I have seen under more favorable circumstances." "Well! She probably does not always wear such beautiful dresses, and if she were not excited by the music and dancing her eyes might possibly not sparkle so much; that is what I mean about its being a pity that you don't dance." "That is not it.

I have seen this beautiful girl on other occasions engaged in the highest intellectual occupation, and I am sorry to see her sink to this sort of thing." "Now the difference is defined.