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And then he adds:

. It is Gabriele d'Annunzio's "Hymn to Life":

What are you thinking of now?

. I was thinking—what our life was at the Court of Suavia. What a wall of convention, of prejudices, and of jealousies hemmed us round! We lived there almost together, and yet we never knew each other at all. I always thought that you were a frivolous creature, wild