The correct answer is It leaves the reader with an impression of a likable, charming man. It is believed that the unnamed person in question was Gumilev, a Russian officer-poet. The exerpt of the encounter that best describes the positive impact that Belloc had with this poet is the following: "He was himself, as he gravely explained, a poet. But he was courteous and complimentary as to select me, as being also a poet, to be the absolute and autocratic governor of England." This description, among others included in the text, left the reader with the idea of the unnamed poet as a likable and charming man.