Could there be a sadder book?
The only things that interested him, were fruit trees and bees.
Animals and plants do not deceive him who loves them.
The whole day long he guarded his trees and his saplings, and waged war against the insects: and all day long he learned the philosophy of life from those grand constitutional monarchists, the bees.
There are many men, particularly to-day, in our country, who know how to kill time: Lorand merely struggled with time, and every day as it passed was a defeat for him.
He never went shooting, he said it was not good for him to take a loaded gun in his hand.
At night one of my children always slept in his room.
"I am afraid of myself," he confessed to me.
He was afraid of himself and of that quiet house, down there beside the brook.
"I would love to sleep there under the perfumed herb-roots."