"That did.

Things awaken a man's memory occasionally, Mr.Narkom, and--Tell me, isn't that the beast there was such a stir about in the newspapers a fortnight or so ago--the lion that crushed the head of a man in full view of the audience ?" "Yes," replied Narkom, with a slight shudder.

"Awful thing, wasn't it?
Gave me the creeps to read about it.

The chap who was killed, poor beggar, was a mere boy, not twenty, son of the Chevalier di Roma himself.

There was a great stir about it.