text:  "How delighted I should be with but one quarter of an hour of your charming conversations with Madame la Comtesse de Brancas! But from intellectual feasts like that I am doomed here to the most rigorous abstinence; and to make up for it I am forced to throw myself on the mullets sardines sprats and tunnies with the wines of Cyprus and Syracuse; so that I have always the body full and the mind empty