Philammon's heart smote him all that day, whenever he thought of his morning's work.

Till then all Christians, monks above all, had been infallible in his eyes: all Jews and heathens insane and accursed.
Moreover, meekness under insult, fortitude in calamity, the contempt of worldly comfort, the worship of poverty as a noble estate, were virtues which the Church Catholic boasted as her peculiar heritage: on which side had the balance of those qualities inclined that morning?
The figure of Raphael, stalking out ragged and penniless into the wide world, haunted him, with its quiet self-assured smile.

And there haunted him, too, another peculiarity in the man, which he had never before remarked in any one but Arsenius--that ease and grace, that courtesy and self-restraint, which made Raphael's rebukes rankle all the more keenly, because he felt that the rebuker was in some mysterious way superior to him, and saw through him, and could have won him Over, Or crushed him in argument, or in intrigue--or in anything, perhaps, except mere brute force.

Strange--that Raphael, of all men, should in those few moments have reminded him so much of Arsenius; and that the very same qualities which gave a peculiar charm to the latter should give a peculiar unloveliness to the former, and yet be, without a doubt, the same.

What was it?
Was it rank which gave it Arsenius had been a great man, he knew--the companion of kings.