I was eager to know him because he had surprised me.

At some play,[11] I think it was "The Promise of May," by Tennyson, produced at the Globe, in which atheists were condemned, he had got up in his box and denounced the play, proclaiming himself an atheist.

I wanted to know the Englishman who could be so contemptuous of convention.

Had he acted out of aristocratic insolence, or was he by any possibility high-minded?
To one who knew the man the mere question must seem ridiculous.
Queensberry was perhaps five feet nine or ten in height, with a plain, heavy, rather sullen face, and quick, hot eyes.

He was a mass of self-conceit, all bristling with suspicion, and in regard to money, prudent to meanness.