There is something in that," I soliloquised (mentally, be it understood; I did not talk aloud), "I know there is, because it does not sound too sweet; it is not like such words as Liberty, Excitement, Enjoyment: delightful sounds truly; but no more than sounds for me; and so hollow and fleeting that it is mere waste of time to listen to them.
Cierto que esa palabra no suena tan dulce como las de libertad, alegría, sensación. Pero tales vocablos, aunque deliciosos, no son para mí más que eso: meros vocablos, y probablemente muy difíciles de convertir en realidades.