Excerpt from This Stage of Fools

When Willy Childers was sent to the Cape, he went to the last country on the face of the habitable globe to which he was suited. Certainly it is a question whether he would have made a success of life anywhere, but in the Cape he was so glaringly out of place that he became conspicuous. In Paris - when he had learnt the language - he would at least have felt at home; he would have drifted by degrees into a congenial set in London; even in New York, enthusiasm and diligence may discover an artist on his way to or from one of the European steamers; but on the Diamond Fields, a young man who hoped to be a poet, and who did write verse, was an incongruity that defies comparison.

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