52e91e78_thenian_Empire___December_2005__Verne_s_text
[Butchers commentary] Verne .... humorously uses the language of love: ... pleasure, and the obscene I swallow easily and without preparation. [Vernes text] 
You said to me some ... very flattering things about my style which is getting better ... But I wonder, in some corner of my noddle, as you say, if you didnt want to sweeten the pill slightly. I assure you, my good and dear Director, that there was nothing to sweeten; I swallow easily and without preparation. So I wonder if you really are as pleased as you say ....
Austro-Athenian Empire - December 2005
Vernes text