'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.'
'Pity without rigor would be cowardly egotism, mere sentimentality.'
A man was leaning idly against an elm. ... The man, who towered over the poet even at his slanting angle, too old for a student and too worn for a faculty member, stared at him with the familiar, insatiable gleam of the literary admirer.
