C’est de rectifier des faits d’abord — et ensuite d’élucider un peu la disposition, à mon sens, mal littéraire, mais conçue dans un but tellement respectable ! […] De même qu’il leur avait fallu un grand homme mort pour enseigne, il leur en fallait un autre pour but de leurs coups. […] If anyone said the Income Tax Collector had claws, we should say at once, « Yves, he has ; he can’t send us a letter without a nasty claws or two in it. » But as to soul he has no soul any more than he has a conscience. […] I cannot boast of what might be called an acquaintance with Alexandre Dumas the younger, but I have often seen him under the circumstances which I will here relate. […] But his Lettres sur les choses du jour are really extreme, and I was astonished when I read the signature.