“What are you going to do there?”
“We are going to open a Club.”
“Are you going to speak?”
“Yes.”
“All right. Let’s go, so that I can hear you. Probably you will do it badly enough.”
“It’s possible.”
“And what you say won’t please anybody.”
“That’s possible, too. But that makes no difference. You will come?”
“Yes. Will there be picturesque speakers?”
“There are some, but they are not going to speak. There is one, Uncle Chinaman, who is a marvel. In describing the actual condition of Spain, he once uttered this authoritative phrase: ‘Clericalism in the zenith, immorality in high places, the debt floating more every day,...’”