• We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.

    Edgar Allan Poe: We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man.
    Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (2000). “Thirty-two Stories”, p.257, Hackett Publishing