He formed his opinions with the greatest haste, and with the greatest perseverance stuck to them; for he was the most generous of mankind, if generous means one quite full of his genus.

And in my little case he had made up his mind that the whole of the facts were against me.

"Fact" was his favorite word, and one which he always used with great effect, for nobody knows very well what it means, as it does not belong to our language.

And so when he said that the facts were against me, who was there to answer that facts are not truth?
This fast-set conclusion of his was known to me not through himself, but through his wife.

For I could not yet bring myself to speak of the things that lay close at my heart to him, though I knew that he must be aware of them.