The Count

...doubts, as well-grounded as I could make them, concerning the Harmony of the World original: "Harmony of the World"; the ancient philosophical concept, also known as musica universalis, that the movements of celestial bodies follow mathematical proportions like music, the numbers of Pythagoras, the Revelations of St. John, and the first chapter of Genesis. The greatness of these matters fascinated him! He wrote to me of unheard-of wonders; and I saw plainly that I was dealing with a man of a most vigorous and abundant imagination. I received sixty or eighty original: "Threescore or Fourscore"; a "score" is twenty letters from him, written in such an extraordinary style that I could not think of reading anything else, even when I was alone in my study.

I was astonished one remarkable day when I saw a man enter with a most noble appearance original: "Excellent Mein"; referring to his dignified manner or carriage. Greeting me solemnly, he said to me in French, but with a foreign accent: