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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A most discreet, understanding man, he said
ofMarlow.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He had a flair for humandeformity; his humour was
sardonic.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Squire are not fiercely attached toanything in
itself. The newspaper crocusis an amazing but still a very different
plant.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Journalism embalmed in a book is
unreadable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Butpresumably there were a certain number of knives
among the spoonsand the forks. He was himself, simply and directly,and himself he
has remained.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is worse, he will say, and perhaps morecommon,
to be afraid of feeling than to feel too much. We arenauseated by the sight of
trivial personalities decomposing in theeternity of print.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But while we are gratified, I, thatunruly partner
in the human fellowship, is reduced to despair.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But the night comes and these flowersfade. It goes
on, but already we are bemused with sound and neither feelnor hear. Butpresumably
there were a certain number of knives among the spoonsand the forks. Among his
readers were people of the most oppositeages and sympathies. Now once more the
conditions have changed. He cannot afford thetime either to be himself or to be
other people.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There is no ginabout; no strong tobacco; no puns,
drunkenness, or insanity. He has clearly made the best of hiscircumstances and not
the worst. I wentwith him to hear what he had to say, for shepherds talk
quitedifferently from other men. The ingot is so small, the manipulation so
incessant.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>But it is ill work dragging such intimationsfrom
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