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The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd.
Basil Grant had comparatively few friends besides myself; yet he was the reverse of an unsociable man.

He would talk to any one anywhere, and talk not only well but with perfectly genuine concern and enthusiasm for that person's affairs.

He went through the world, as it were, as if he were always on the top of an omnibus or waiting for a train.

Most of these chance acquaintances, of course, vanished into darkness out of his life.