... harpy, a Moloch, a Jonah, a vampire, to my acquaintances. Anxious, haggard, greedy, I stood among them like a veritable killjoy. Let a bright saying, a witty comparison, a piquant phrase fall ... scurry away to some safer hiding place. Miserable wretch that I was! And yet I was doing well financially. Before the first year had passed I had saved a thousand dollars, and we had lived ... But at what a cost! I am not quite clear as to what a pariah is, but I was everything that it sounds like. I had no friends, no amusements, no enjoyment of life. The happiness of my family had...