Excerpt from George Eliot: A Paper, With Illustrative Selections, Read Before the Chit-Chat Club, 9th, Francisco, July 9th, Chit-Chat
Have you never, gentlemen, as the Saturday preceding the second Monday of the month found you without a line of your essay penned or penciled, nay, without even so much as a plot for your story - have you never, I venture to ask, felt, on that momentous day, a sentiment of inward debasement and dread, of degraded insufficiency for the uses and purposes of this mortal, life?
On each of the two former occasions when I have had the honor to be appointed to lead off in our intellectual feast, I plead guilty to the influence of this sentiment in all its power. And the present occasion forms no exception to the two which have preceded it; for the cloud of the divine awe - the bitter-sweet of authorship - hangs heavily on my soul, and I find myself again appealing to your clemency rather than to your justice. I cannot forbear mentioning this mental attitude, now thrice recurrent, not in the least by way of personal extenuation (God forbid that I should imperil your digestion by post-prandial whining!), but because it seems to me to carry with it, by necessary implication, the highest possible compliment to that little brotherhood known as the "Chit-Chat Club."
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