"Suppose you tell me first.

Or maybe you find in him nothing less than the best." "I attended two lecture courses under him, and I have known him for two years; that is why I am anxious for your first impression." "Bad impression, you mean?
Well, here goes.

He is all the fine things you think about him, I guess.

At least, he is the finest specimen of intellectual man I have met; but he is a man with a secret shame." "Oh, no, no!" he hastened to cry.

"Nothing paltry nor vulgar.