A Pessimist in Theory and Practice

Bird, Frederic Mayer · 1908

Produced by Colin Bell, Brett Fishburne and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net I had seen and heard little of Hartman since our college days. There he was counted a youth of eminent promise: after that I knew that he had traveled, written something or other, and practised law--or professed it, and not too eagerly: then he had disappeared. Last May I stumbled on him in a secluded region where I had gone to fish and rest, after a year of too close attention to business. We came face to face in the woods, stared at each other, and then our hands met in the old grip. He took me home with him, to a comfortable enough bachelor establishment, and we made a night--or m…

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