text:  I had observed him sometimes pointing to myself; and was perplexed at seeing the gesture followed by gloomy looks and what French reporters call "sensation " in these young men whom naturally I viewed with awe as my leaders boys that were called young men men that were reading Sophocles--(a name that carried with it the sound of something seraphic to my ears)--and who never had vouchsafed to waste a word on such a child as myself