He says that he had never seen such a variety of flowers and had never smelled such a variety of odours at the same time.

If not for my advanced age and the strict and serious propriety with which I treat my visitors, I do not know how far they would have gone in the expression of their feelings.
How many perfumed notes! How many languid sighs and humbly imploring eyes! There was even a fascinating stranger with a black veil--three times she appeared mysteriously, and when she learned that I had visitors she disappeared just as mysteriously.
I will add that at the present time I have had the honour of being elected an honourary member of numerous humanitarian organisations such as "The League of Peace," "The League for Combating Juvenile Criminality," "The Society of the Friends of Man," and others.

Besides, at the request of the editor of one of the most widely read newspapers, I am to begin next month a series of public lectures, for which purpose I am going on a tour together with my kind impresario.
I have already prepared my material for the first three lectures and, in the hope that my reader may be interested, I shall give the synopsis of these lectures.
FIRST LECTURE Chaos or order?
The eternal struggle between chaos and order.

The eternal revolt and the defeat of chaos, the rebel.

The triumph of law and order.
SECOND LECTURE What is the soul of man?
The eternal conflict in the soul of man between chaos, whence it came, and harmony, whither it strives irresistibly.
Falsehood, as the offspring of chaos, and Truth, as the child of harmony.