"The people over at Danby are all crazy about him, I think," said Stephen.

"He is a very good man no doubt, and does no end of things for the college boys, that none of the other professors do.

But I think he is quixotic and sentimental; and all this stuff about those niggers at the Cedars is moonshine.

They'd pick his very pocket, I daresay, any day; and he'd never suspect them.

I know that lot too well.