Note 12 — Chapter XXII · THE LAST HEIGHTS1 (1910–1915)

“This is the museum which we wish to dedicate to him,” said the chief promoter of this pious undertaking,12 “so that in after years, when the good sage who knew the language of the innumerable little creatures of the country-side shall rest beneath the cypresses of his harmas, at the foot of the laurestinus bushes, amidst the thyme and the sage that the bees will still rifle, all those whom he has taught, all those whom he has charmed, may feel that something of his soul still wanders in his garden and animates his house.”