He longed to give death to all.

As with us there are certain philanthropists who have a mania for doing good, so here the pauper class had a mania for doing what they considered good in this way.

The Chief Pauper was a sort of Kosekin Howard or Peabody, and was regarded by all with boundless reverence.

To me, however, he was an object of never-ending hate, abhorrence, and loathing; and, added to this, was the thought that there might be here some equally hideous female--someone like the nightmare hag of the outer sea--a torment and a horror to Almah..