for we always conversed, whenever good fortune and my ingenuity gave us the chance, with the greatest gaiety and cheerfulness, mingling tears, sighs, jealousies, doubts, or fears with our words it was all on my part a eulogy of my good fortune that Heaven should have given her to me for my mistress I glorified her beauty, I extolled her worth and her understanding and she paid me back by praising in me what in her love for me she thought worthy of praise and besides we had a hundred thousand trifles and doings of our neighbours and acquaintances to talk about, and the utmost extent of my boldness was to take, almost by force, one of her fair white hands and carry it to my lips, as well as the closeness of the low grating that separated us allowed me.
His friend, jubilant and glorified, holding his treasure with vanity, came to him there.
Both these groups were intermixed with the old nobility, who now acted as a glorified mouthpiece for the country.
After reading their glorified description, he said he was hooked.
