The Little Man and Other SatiresWilliam Heinemann, 1927 - 279 pages |
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Page 273 - but this theatre's goin' to be run much cheaper; one of 'em's got to get.' 'Oh !' he said, 'dear me !' he said. What a funny little old chap it was ! Well — what do you think ? Next day I had his resignation. Give you my word I did my best to turn him. Why, he was sixty then if he was a day — at sixty a man don't get jobs in a hurry. But, not a bit of it ! All he'd say was: 'I shall get a place all right !' But that's it, you know — he never did. Too long in one shop. I heard by accident he...
Page 101 - What a worm I am! This wonderful Infinity! I must get more of it — more of it into my work; more of the feeling that the whole is marvellous and great, and man a little clutch of breath and dust, an atom, a straw, a nothing!" And a sort of exaltation would seize on him, so that he knew that if only he did get that into his work, as he wished to, as he felt just then that he could, he would be the greatest writer the world had ever seen, the greatest man, almost greater than he wished to be, almost...
Page 241 - ... streets. And when I interrogated him on this, he would only smile his smile of one not there, and did not seem to know very much of what I was talking. I said to myself: 'There is something here to see, if I am not mistaken. One of these good days I shall be your guardian angel while you fly the night.
Page 97 - This fellow says what I've always said"; or, "This fellow says so and so, now I say — " and he would argue the matter with her, taking both sides of the question, so as to save her all unnecessary speech. There were times when he felt that he absolutely must hear music, and he would enter the concert-hall with his wife in the pleasurable certainty that he was going to lose himself. Towards the middle of the second number, especially if it happened to be music that he liked, he would begin to nod;...