This was enviable.

As I looked at him, flanking on one side the unassuming pale-faced magistrate who presided at the inquiry, his self-satisfaction presented to me and to the world a surface as hard as granite.

He committed suicide very soon after.
'No wonder Jim's case bored him, and while I thought with something akin to fear of the immensity of his contempt for the young man under examination, he was probably holding silent inquiry into his own case.
The verdict must have been of unmitigated guilt, and he took the secret of the evidence with him in that leap into the sea.

If I understand anything of men, the matter was no doubt of the gravest import, one of those trifles that awaken ideas--start into life some thought with which a man unused to such a companionship finds it impossible to live.

I am in a position to know that it wasn't money, and it wasn't drink, and it wasn't woman.