I am a thin, dark man, much given to gnawing my
nails, muttering to myself, and poring over works of German philosophy at
midnight in his stone-walled, tapestried study. Nothing so bad in those things,
of course, but I have other defects, such as a temper you’d have put down for
its own sake if it’d been a dog, a vile, sarcastic tongue and--worst of all--a kind
of bright-eyed delight in being cruel....
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