Wherefore, it was no wonder that most people stared and wondered, while some sneered and some even hated.

On the whole, however, Orlando Guise was in the way of making a place for himself in the West in spite of natural drawbacks.
Old Mazarine did not merely sneer as he saw the gay cavalier approach, he snorted; and he would have blasphemed, if he had not been a professing Christian.
"Circus rider!" he said to himself.

"Wants taking down some, and he's come to the right place to get it." On his part, Orlando Guise showed his dislike of the repellent figure by a brusque giggle, and further expressed what was in his mind by the one word "Turk!" His repugnance, however, was balanced by something possessing the old man still more disagreeable.

Like a malignant liquid, there crept up through Joel Mazarine's body to the roots of his hair the ancient virus of Cain.

It was jealous, ravenous, grim: old age hating the rich, robust, panting youth of the man be fore him.