"I saw a grey-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing. He seemed to be in a room in a tower, v…"

"He put down his pen and sighed the half-resentful sigh — "ah! you work, you! how you gratify and tire me!" — of a man…"

"This is the story that happy, active-looking old man in the pleasant place had written."

"I have set myself to write the story of the Great Change, so far as it has affected my own life and the lives of one …"

"The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon the …"

"Already we begin to forget how modern an invention is personal cleanliness. It is a fact that Parload had never strip…"

"I took all this grimy unpleasantness as if it were the most natural and proper setting for existence imaginable. It w…"

"You must understand — and every year it becomes increasingly difficult to understand — how entirely different the wor…"

"Now you must understand that the world of thought of those days was in the strangest condition, it was choked with ob…"

"The adolescent years of any fairly intelligent youth lie open, and will always lie healthily open, to the contagion o…"