He took me into his service, sir, because I was ugly.

'I'm so handsome myself;' he says, 'I want a contrast of something ugly about me.' You may have noticed that he's a bitter one--and bitterly enough he sometimes behaved to me.

But there's a good side to him.

He gives me his old clothes, and sometimes he speaks almost as kindly to me as you do.

But for him, I believe I should have perished of starvation--" He suddenly checked himself.