Translations:Victor of Aveyron/80/en

Is he impatient to dine? his intentions are still less equivocally expressed; ile himself lays the cloth upon the table and presents to Madame Guerin the plates, so that she may go into the kitchen to fill them. When he dines with me in town, all his wishes are expressed to the lady who does the honors at the table. It is always to her that he addresses himself to he served with what he wants. If she pretends not to understand him, he puts his plate by the side of the dish of which he desires to partake and devours it with his eyes. If this does not produce any effect, he takes a fork and strikes it two or three times on the edge of the dish. If she still neglects him, he loses all patience; he plunges a spoon or even his hand into the dish, and, in the twinkling of an eye, he empties it all into his own plate. He is no less expressive in the manner of exhibiting the affections of his mind, especially impatience and ennui. A great number of the curious know-how, with more natural frankness than politeness, he dismissed them, when fatigued with the length of their visits; he presents to each of them, and yet without a countenance of contempt, their cane, gloves, and hat, pushes them gently towards the door, which afterward he violently shuts upon them *.