The voice has become still more husky, the feeling more misty, the thoughts more prosy.
At last he said with an almost touching vagueness, " Well, I'm afraid you'll think it so prosy.
He is not a dramatist - his work as such is insignificant - nor a novelist, for, though his two chief works except the Confessions are called novels, Emile is one only in name, and La Nouvelle Helotise is as a story diffuse, prosy and awkward to a degree.
