a face inscribed with thought and labour, a harmonious home, a pretty, petite wife as active as a linnet, two tall playful sons, eyes as if half-closed and veiled beneath the thick English brows. Unassuming and wise, healthy, strong, very well-informed and very matter-of-fact in all the good and vital implications of this phrase. You forget that you are talking to a great author, because you are talking to a thoughtful and all-round man. Long may you flourish. Mr. Wells.
This is an almost super natural personality. Mr. Bernard Shaw; I could not make a better drawing of him, because he keeps moving about and talking. He is immensely tall, thin and straight; he looks half like God and half like a very malicious satyr, who, however, by a process of sublimation extending over thousands of years, has lost all that is too closely akin to nature. He has white
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