He was down to date with them, too; and if he had made them the study of his life he could hardly have been better posted as to their contents than he was.

He made me better satisfied with myself than I had ever been before.

It was plain that he had a deep fondness for humor, yet he never laughed; he never even chuckled; in fact, humor could not win to outward expression on his face at all.

No, he was always grave--tenderly, pensively grave; but he made me laugh, all along; and this was very trying--and very pleasant at the same time--for it was at quotations from my own books.
When he was going, he turned and said: "You don't remember me ?" "I?
Why, no.

Have we met before ?" "No, it was a matter of correspondence." "Correspondence ?" "Yes, many years ago.