He muttered breathless ejaculations, he breathed strange murmurs of endearment, he humbled himself in his rapturous delight beneath the walls of the temple like a dog that has discovered his lost master and fawns affectionately at his feet.

Criminal as he was, his joy in his abasement, his glory in his miserable isolation from humanity, was a doom of degradation pitiable to behold.
After an interval his mood changed.

He rose to his feet, his trembling limbs strengthened with a youthful vigour as he ascended the temple steps and gained its doorway.

He turned for a moment, and looked forth over the street, ere he entered the hallowed domain of his distempered imagination.

To him the cloudy sky above was now shining with the radiance of the sun-bright East.