The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson (1903) [Volume: 22] (Illustrated)

MY companion enjoyed a cheap reputation for wit and insight. He was by habit and repute a satirist If he did occasionally condemn anything or anybody who richly deserved it, and whose had hitherto escaped, it was simply because he condemned everything and everybody. While I was with him he disposed of St. Paul with an epigram, shook my reverence for Shakespeare in a neat antithesis, and fell foul of the Almighty himself, on the score of one or two out of the ten commandments. Nothing escaped his…