Would it also surprise you to learn that he has the appearance of a man of very great distinction ?--that he was faultlessly attired in a full suit of black and had the finest pair of eyes in his head I have ever looked into?
Mr.
Poe is not of your world, or of mine--he is above it.

There is too much of this sort of ill-considered judgment abroad in the land.

No--my dear Purviance--I don't want to be rude and I am sure you will not think I am personal.

I am only trying to be just to one of the master spirits of our time so that I won't be humiliated when his real worth becomes a household word." The women took a different view.
"I can't understand what Mr.Temple is thinking of," said the wife of the archdeacon to Mrs.Cheston.

"This Mr.Poe is something dreadful--never sober, I hear.