I have suffered, sir!" Roderick went on with increasing emphasis.

"I have suffered damnable torments.

Have I been such a placid, contented, comfortable man this last six months, that when I find a chance to forget my misery, I should take such pains not to profit by it?
You ask too much, for a man who himself has no occasion to play the hero.

I don't say that invidiously; it 's your disposition, and you can't help it.

But decidedly, there are certain things you know nothing about." Rowland listened to this outbreak with open eyes, and Roderick, if he had been less intent upon his own eloquence, would probably have perceived that he turned pale.