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Again I repeated to him -- `` You have made me quite happy , and in a way that suits me ; I do not feel an obligation irksome , conferred by your kind hand ; I do not feel disposed to shun you because you have done me a favour ; from this day you must consent to admit me to your intimate acquaintance , for I shall hereafter recur again and again to the pleasure of your society . '' `` Ainsi soit-il , '' was the reply , accompanied by a smile of benignant content . I went away with its sunshine in my heart . IT was two o'clock when I returned to my lodgings ; my dinner , just brought in from a neighbouring hotel , smoked on the table ; I sat down thinking to eat -- had the plate been heaped with potsherds and broken glass , instead of boiled beef and haricots , I could not have made a more signal failure : appetite had forsaken me . Impatient of seeing food which I could not taste , I put it all aside into a cupboard , and then demanded , `` What shall I do till evening ? '' for before six P.M. it would be vain to seek the Rue Notre Dame aux Neiges ; its inhabitant -LRB- for me it had but one -RRB- was detained by her vocation elsewhere . I walked in the streets of Brussels , and I walked in my own room from two o'clock till six ; never once in that space of time did I sit down .