Here at last were people who appreciated him and his high office.

And as the mayor helped him into the automobile, and those students who lived in Stillwater welcomed him with strange yells, and the moving-picture machine aimed at him point blank, he beamed with condescension.

But inwardly he was ill at ease.
Inwardly he was chastising himself for having, through his ignorance of America, failed to appreciate the importance of the man he had come to honor.

When he remembered he had never even heard of Doctor Gilman he blushed with confusion.

And when he recollected that he had been almost on the point of refusing to come to Stillwater, that he had considered leaving the presentation to his secretary, he shuddered.