Just when I would so eagerly go into it with him....There's something the matter now, something--it may be grave. I feel hewants to tell me. And there it is!--it seems I am the last person towhom he can humiliate himself by a confession of blundering, orweakness.... Something I should just laugh at and say, 'That's in theblood of all of us, dear Spit of myself.
...Like an insidious pedlar, that old rascal whom young literary gentlemencall the Great God Pan, began to spread his wares in the young... read more