"That's just it," said the doctor, removing his pince-nez and rubbing them.

The man who entered was a short, middle-aged Jew of the type that writes political reviews for magazinesblack morning coat, straw hat, gold pince-neza neatly trimmed dark beard beginning to turn gray from intense mental emotionnearly balda manner of conceding the conventions rather than argue the point, without admitting any necessity for thema thin-lipped smile that apologized for smiling in a world so serious and bitter.

He found the glassesgold pince-nezbut they were broken neatly in the middle, lying on the floor, as if they had dropped from someone's hand.