Chapter VI

I have just alluded to the light which emanates from the human heart and illumines everything which surrounds it.... I want to talk with thee about that time when that gracious light burned in my heart.--Listen ... but I imagine that thou art sitting in front of me, and gazing at me with thine affectionate but almost severely-attentive eyes. O eyes never to be forgotten! On whom, on what are they now fixed? Who is receiving into his soul thy glance--that glance which seems to flow from unfathomable depths, like those mysterious springs--like you both bright and dark--which well up at the very bottom of narrow valleys, beneath overhanging cliffs?... Listen.