← It was a proud day for me when I—I was included. 🔊
← And I was very near indeed to reverence when he said he had another book coming out soon. 🔊
← I did not, when the time came, quite see that. 🔊
← It seemed to me, when first I read Fungoids, that, oddly enough, the diabolistic side of him was the best. 🔊
← I had hoped that when next I met the poet I could congratulate him on having made a stir, for I fancied he was not so sure of his intrinsic greatness as he seemed. 🔊
← I was but able to say, rather coarsely, when next I did see him, that I hoped Fungoids was "selling splendidly." 🔊
← He did not enlighten me when he said, after a long pause, "You think I haven't minded." 🔊
← "It's what you said to me three years ago, when Fungoids was published." 🔊
← You realize, therefore, that on that afternoon, when it comes round, there the selfsame crowd will be, and there Soames will be, punctually, he and they doing precisely what they did before. 🔊
← And when he does come the effect will of course be—awful. 🔊