A propos voici un livre que je n’ai pas le temps de lire en ce moment qui est recommandé, paraît-il, par cet immense bonhomme. Il tient, m’a-t-on dit, l’auteur, le sieur Bergotte, pour un coco des plus subtils; et bien qu’il fasse preuve, des fois, de mansuétudes assez mal explicables, sa parole est pour moi oracle delphique. →
By which token, here is a book which I have not the time, just now, to read, a book recommended, it would seem, by that colossal fellow. He regards, or so they tell me, its author, one Bergotte, Esquire, as a subtle scribe, more subtle, indeed, than any beast of the field; and, albeit he exhibits on occasion a critical pacifism, a tenderness in suffering fools, for which it is impossible to account, and hard to make allowance, still his word has weight with me as it were the Delphic Oracle.