34/82 He apparently did not know the meaning of the word "restraint." The serious questions in life to him were food, drink, women. He hailed any one as a friend but if he considered some one a fool he said so immediately. He concealed his opinions from no one. He was a man now of fifty, but had never married, preferring a long succession of mistresses--women who had loved him, at whom he had always laughed, to whom he had been kind in a careless fashion.... He always declared that no woman had ever touched his heart. |