He says very fine things; but does he mean all he says ?" "Few of us do that." "You do, I imagine.

You ought to know, for he tells me you discovered him." Rowland was silent, and Christina continued, "Do you consider him very clever ?" "Unquestionably." "His talent is really something out of the common way ?" "So it seems to me." "In short, he 's a man of genius ?" "Yes, call it genius." "And you found him vegetating in a little village and took him by the hand and set him on his feet in Rome ?" "Is that the popular legend ?" asked Rowland.
"Oh, you need n't be modest.

There was no great merit in it; there would have been none at least on my part in the same circumstances.
Real geniuses are not so common, and if I had discovered one in the wilderness, I would have brought him out into the market-place to see how he would behave.

It would be excessively amusing.

You must find it so to watch Mr.Hudson, eh?
Tell me this: do you think he is going to be a great man--become famous, have his life written, and all that ?" "I don't prophesy, but I have good hopes." Christina was silent.