human
the last of three, presenting Neil Paraday to the human race. His new book, the fifth from his hand, had been but a day or two out, and _The Empire_, already aware of it, fired, as if on the birth of a prince, a salute of a whole column. The guns had been booming these three hours in the house without our suspecting them. The big blundering newspaper had discovered him, and now he was proclaimed and anointed and crowned. His place was assigned him as publicly as if a fat usher with a wand had pointed to the topmost chair; he was to pass up and still up, higher and higher, between the watching faces and the envious sounds--away up to the daïs and the throne. The article was a date; he had taken rank at a bound--waked up a national glory. A national glory was needed, and it was an immense convenience he was there. What all this meant rolled over me, and I fear I grew a little faint--it meant so much more than I could say