If it were anything but tedious it would be untrue.

I speak, of course, of its effect upon the ordinary reader.' 'I couldn't do it,' said Reardon.
'Certainly you couldn't.

You--well, you are a psychological realist in the sphere of culture.

You are impatient of vulgar circumstances.' 'In a great measure because my life has been martyred by them.' 'And for that very same reason I delight in them,' cried Biffen.
'You are repelled by what has injured you; I am attracted by it.

This divergence is very interesting; but for that, we should have resembled each other so closely.