They said that as a poet, or a shilling shocker, or a reporter, or anything of that kind, I might be satisfactory, but that, to gain any position as a Thames angler, would require more play of fancy, more power of invention than I appeared to possess.
Comme poete, ou auteur de romans d’aventures, ou journaliste, ou n’importe quoi de ce genre, j’en avais peut-etre suffisamment, mais quant a acquérir un certain rang en tant que pecheur a la ligne sur la Tamise, il m’eut fallu davantage de puissance d’invention et de fantaisie que je n’en possédais apparemment.