They could tell that he suffered under these as they never suffered themselves, yet he bore them and did his duty with a self-control and patience they had never attained.
Almost insensibly they grew ashamed to be beaten by him, and strove to grow like him as far as they could.

They never knew him drunk, they never heard him swear; they never found him unjust--even to a poverty-stricken indigene; or brutal--even to a fille de joie.
Insensibly his presence humanized them.

Of a surety, the last part Bertie dreamed of playing was that of a teacher to any mortal thing; yet, here in Africa, it might reasonably be questioned if a second Augustine or Francis Xavier would ever have done half the good among the devil-may-care Roumis that was wrought by the dauntless, listless, reckless soldier who followed instinctively the one religion which has no cant in its brave, simple creed, and binds man to man in links that are true as steel--the religion of a gallant gentleman's loyalty and honor..