He was short but by no means conspicuously short, and of a bright, almost juvenile complexion, very active in his movements and garrulous, or at least very talkative. He had a low opinion of eminent people, a thing Wells was careful to suppress and his dissertations had ever an irresponsible gaiety of manner that may have blinded Wells to their true want of merit. This was in the days before his abrupt extinction, before the cares of this world choked him. Mr. Wells arranged this little tribute to his memory, this poor dozen of casual monologues that were so preserved. The merits of the monument are his entirely; its faults entirely Wells' own.
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