The Torrents Of Spring

Never had he felt such weariness of body and of spirit. He had passed the whole evening in the company of charming ladies and cultivated men; some of the ladies were beautiful, almost all the men were distinguished by intellect or talent; he himself had talked with great success, even with brilliance. and, for all that, never yet had the taedium vitae of which the Romans talked of old, the 'disgust for life, ' taken hold of him with such irresistible, such suffocating force.