“Speak. It is my duty to listen to any subject's plea as though it came from my very self”.
“Well, what happened to me is quite peculiar. Last week, as I stood in my workshop, as always, distilling essences, I nearly got a stroke: by smelling the little flask wherein I had poured the result of my latest experiment, I detected something which could not just be called a perfume, as it rather was the perfume of perfumes, the essence of all essences, the supreme ecstasy of the sense of smell! Never! I repeat, never before had I ever smelled such a triumph of perfect nuances, of different grades of pleasantness... never. I immediately realized I was standing before my best masterpiece, an accomplishment such as I could never equal, not to mention better!”
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