The Importance of Imagination

"You Veriker, as I saw him there, was of a contact so void of angles that I blushed for the poverty of imagination involved in my small precautions. If he was in spirits, it wasn't because he had read my review." "The impression he made on me personally was such that I wished him to read it and I corrected to this end with a surreptitious hand what might be wanting in the careless, conspicuity of the sheet," says his narrator. 'When afterwards, in the course of our gregarious walk, I found myself for half an hour, not perhaps without another maneuver, at the great man's side'