And from being moderately depressed he became like a man about to be executed.

Clara Durrant had left him at a party to talk to an American called Pilchard.

And he had come all the way to Greece and left her.

They wore evening-dresses, and talked nonsense--what damned nonsense--and he put out his hand for the Globe Trotter, an international magazine which is supplied free of charge to the proprietors of hotels.
In spite of its ramshackle condition modern Greece is highly advanced in the electric tramway system, so that while Jacob sat in the hotel sitting-room the trams clanked, chimed, rang, rang, rang imperiously to get the donkeys out of the way, and one old woman who refused to budge, beneath the windows.

The whole of civilization was being condemned.
The waiter was quite indifferent to that too.