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'He is no particular friend of raver, and

writes also, I believe, for the newspapers'

'He can talk as well as write' 'Yes, he can talk very well'

'Do you not think there was so unreal about what he said?'

'I do not believe he is actually insincere I have noticed that men

rite or read much often appear somewhat shadowy'

'How do you account for it?' 'What they say is not experience'

'I do not quite understand A man may think much which can never

become an experience in your sense of the word, and be veryis an experience'

'Yes, I suppose so, but it is what a person has gone through which I

like to hear Poor Dennis has suffered much You are perhaps

surprised, but it is true, and when he leaves politics alone he is a

different creature' 'I a to you?'

'I did notbut my friend's aches and

pains, but that I do not care for what he just takes up and takes

on' 'It is my misfortune that my subjects are not very--I was about to

say--human Perhaps it is because I am a Jew'

'I do not know quite what you mean by your "subjects," but if you

ion, they are hu about theood, I can never talk to anybody as I can to you

' Clara made no reply A husband was to be had for a look, for a

touch, a husband whoive her

all her intellect demanded A little house rose before her eyes as

if by Arabian enchantht fire on the hearth, and

there were children round it; without the look, the touch, there