text:  The displeasure which he had formerly exhibited passed like a cloud from his brow; he grew elated criticized writer after writer recited compositions illustrated them with verses from the French and German; repeated his own modest attempts at translation gave his hearer an idea of Goethe Uhland Wieland and the smaller fry of German poets and pursued his theme in short until listener and reciter both were charmed and gratified beyond expression--she with his talents and his manners--he with her patience and attention and perhaps her face and figure