But I cannot, of course, hope to reproduce to you his terrible earnestness, the burning passion with which every word seemed to spring from his lips.

Their effect upon me at that time you will be able to judge when I tell you this--that I never returned to my rooms, that for ten years I never set foot west of Temple Bar.

I first joined a small society in Whitechapel, then I worked for myself, and finally I became a police-court missionary at Southwark Police-Court.

The history of those years is the history of a slowly-growing madness.

I commenced by trying to improve whole districts-I ended with the individual." Brooks' wineglass fell with a little crash upon the tablecloth.