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Lacks structure. Good anecdotes.

I saw H. G. Wells there on several occasions. He did not belong to the circle of friends of which I am speaking. He came independently with parties of his own. My friends observed him with something approaching horror. One of them said 'Whenever I see H. G. Wells I feel uncomfortably refined.'

When Colonel Lawrence visited Doughty, he asked him how he came to go to Arabia. The reply made by the author of Arabia Deserta was that he went there 'in order to rescue English Prose from the slough into which it had fallen.'