I do not like journalists.

They are a class of writers to be avoided as the pest.

They think that everything is permissible and they respect nothing.

Grant them the least favour, allow them even to approach you, and you never can tell what annoyance they may give you.

This one appears to be scarcely twenty years old, and the effrontery with which he dared to question us and discuss the matter with us made him particularly obnoxious to me.