I told him at last that I was surprised that a man of such immense wealth should still keep on going like this reaching for more and more.

I suppose he must have been sipping a good deal of wine while we talked and all at once he let out an atrocity which was too much for me.

He had been moaning and sentimentalizing but then suddenly he showed me his fangs.

'No,' he cries, 'you can't imagine what a satisfaction it is to feel all that penniless, beggarly lot of the dear, honest, meritorious poor wriggling and slobbering under one's boots.' You may tell me that he is a contemptible animal anyhow, but you should have heard the tone! I felt my bare arms go cold like ice.

A moment before I had been hot and faint with sheer boredom.