Old bucks who are growing stout might consider him insufficiently filled out; old beaux who were growing thin might feel that he expanded beyond the narrow lines of elegance.

Perhaps Swedes (who have pale hair like tow) called him a dark man, while negroes considered him distinctly blonde.

Perhaps (in short) this extraordinary thing is really the ordinary thing; at least the normal thing, the centre.

Perhaps, after all, it is Christianity that is sane and all its critics that are mad--in various ways.

I tested this idea by asking myself whether there was about any of the accusers anything morbid that might explain the accusation.