'How do you class such a mind as that?
Ten to one this is some Quixotic obligation he has laid upon himself, and probably he has gone without even a handbag.' 'Vocally delivered,' said Peak, 'this would represent a certain stage of drunkenness.

I suppose it isn't open to such an explanation ?' 'Malkin never was intoxicated, save with his own vivacity.' They discussed the singular being with good-natured mirth, then turned by degrees to other topics.
'I have just come across a passage that will delight you,' said Earwaker, taking up a book.

'Perhaps you know it.' He read from Sir Thomas Brown's _Pscudodoxia Epidemica_.

'"Men's names should not only distinguish them.

A man should be something that all men are not, and individual in somewhat beside his proper name.