You'll find it all type-written in my desk at home.

I put the best talent of San Francisco on the job: Harry Miller, the brightest pressman in the city." And so he rattled on, beyond reach of my modest protestations, blurting out his complicated interests, crying up his new acquaintances, and ever and again hungering to introduce me to some "whole-souled, grand fellow, as sharp as a needle," from whom, and the very thought of whom, my spirit shrank instinctively.
Well, I was in for it: in for Pinkerton, in for the portrait, in for the type-written lecture.

One promise I extorted--that I was never again to be committed in ignorance; even for that, when I saw how its extortion puzzled and depressed the Irrepressible, my soul repented me; and in all else I suffered myself to be led uncomplaining at his chariot wheels.
The Irrepressible, did I say?
The Irresistible were nigher truth.
But the time to have seen me was when I sat down to Harry Miller's lecture.

He was a facetious dog, this Harry Miller; he had a gallant way of skirting the indecent which (in my case) produced physical nausea; and he could be sentimental and even melodramatic about grisettes and starving genius.

I found he had enjoyed the benefit of my correspondence with Pinkerton: adventures of my own were here and there horridly misrepresented, sentiments of my own echoed and exaggerated till I blushed to recognise them.