do not know. He has a morality 

 which surpasses all that he is 

 able to discover in himself and 

 which he can practise without 

 scruple and without fear. He 

 possesses truth in its fulness. 

 He has a certain and infinite 

 ideal. 



IV 



And it was thus that, the other 

 day, before his illness, I saw my 

 little Pelleas sitting at the foot of 

 my writing-table, his tail carefully 



