«Dans ma pipe je brûlerai
Mes souvenirs d'enfance
Mes rêves inachevés
Mes restes d'espérance»
My only vice—if one can call this so—at any rate, not an addiction, as I stopped the practice all the time I have been with Elena, who disliked this very much. The first, and so far only liberty, I allowed myself when she left me, was to bite my pipes again.