On the contrary, he found himself wishing that the day's respite had not been granted to him, and that his departure from the place of his employment was final.

He was very much in the position of a man who has been transferred without warning or notice from the streets of London to the streets of Pekin.

Every object which he saw he looked upon with different eyes.

Every face which he passed produced a different impression upon him.

He looked about him with all the avidity of one suddenly conscious of a great store of unused impressions.