An excerpt from Ch. XXII of “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas” by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, translated by Gregory Rabassa (ellipses in original)

I came . . . But no, let’s not lengthen this chapter. Sometimes I forget myself when I’m writing and the pen just goes along eating up paper to my great harm, because I’m an author. Long chapters are better suited for logy readers and we’re not an in-folio public but an in-12 one, not much text, wide margins, elegant type, gold trim, and ornamental designs . . . designs above all . . . No, let’s not lengthen the chapter.