In spite of the momentary desire he had just been feeling for company of any sort, on being actually spoken to he felt immediately his habitual irritable and uneasy aversion for any stranger who approached or attempted to approach him.

“O fim dos fins, senhores, é não fazer nada, absolutamente nada.”

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love manki…”

“Let the readers do some of the work themselves”

“and though there was no longer anything to be astonished at, still manifest rea…”