Your speech roused in him the native public sense, the ancient fire of the people from whom he did not know he came.

His origin has been his bane from the start.

He did not know why the man he thought his father seemed almost a stranger to him.
He did not understand, and so they fell apart.

Yet John Grier would have given more than he had to win the boy to himself.

Do you ever think what the boy must have suffered?
He does not know.