I do not remember, however, to have met any one who felt so strongly on the point as you do." "Now you speak like a rational being," said Isaacs, quite pacified.
"Extraordinary feelings are the result of unusual circumstances.

I was in such distress as rarely falls to the lot of an innocent man of fine temperament and good abilities.

I am now in a position of such wealth and prosperity as still more seldom are given to a man of my age and antecedents.

I remember that I obtained the first step on my road to fortune through the kindness of John Westonhaugh, though I could never learn his name, and I met him at last, as you saw, by an accident.

I call that accident a favour, and an opportunity bestowed on me by Allah, and the meeting has roused in me those feelings of thankfulness which, for want of an object upon which to show them, have been put away out of sight as a thing sacred for many years.