vergniand

Updated: May 9, 2025

Wearied by this harangue, in order to conceal my rising disgust, I sat down on the grass and began to play with the goat. Mercanson turned on me his dull and lifeless eye: "The celebrated Vergniand," said he, "was afflicted with that mania of sitting on the ground and playing with animals." "It is a mania," I replied, very innocently.

Alfred de Musset - The Confession of a Child of the Century