Excerpt from Pages From a Private Diary Write. He is secretly regarded by his neigh bours - even though they subscribe to Mudie as the world in general regards the common in former or the professional interviewer. I recall at this moment with a shiver the lowered tem perature of the house in which I happened to be staying, when some one newly returned from town communicated to one and another the fact of my indiscretion. People began to speak to me as if they were on oath, and as if every word might be used against them. I sat late that evening with an old gentleman, who was telling stories to which I had often listened with pleasure, and we said good-night outside my bedroom door. In a minute I heard him tip toeing back along the corridor. Of course, he said, you understand that what I have told you to-night is strictly between ourselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.