And what vanity, what assumptions! The first time I met him he lectured me as if I were a schoolgirl--lectured me about the idle, worthless life he said I lead.

I decided not to recognize him next time I saw him.

Up he came, and without noticing that I did not speak he poured out such insults that I was answering him before I realized it." "He certainly is a most exasperating person." "So Western! The very worst the West ever sent us.

I don't understand how he happened to get about among decent people.

Oh, I remember, it was Grant Arkwright who did it.