perfect
. No one more agreeable, or perhaps so much so, when she will. Asked for Wednesday to dine and meet the Stael—asked particularly, I believe, out of mischief to see the first interview after the
note
, with which Corinne professes herself to be so much taken. I don't much like it; she always talks of
my
self or
her
self, and I am not (except in soliloquy, as now,) much enamoured of either subject—especially one's works. What the devil shall I say about
De l'Allemagne
? I like it prodigiously; but unless I can twist my admiration into some fantastical expression, she won't believe me; and I know, by experience, I shall be overwhelmed with fine things about rhyme, etc., etc. The lover, Mr.—— [Rocca], was there to-night, and C—— said "it was the only proof