That is what I would really like to find out, Aaron--the spirit of the people." The young man looked up from his work.

He was greatly changed during the last few hours.

He was wearing a new suit of clothes and clean linen; his hair had been cut, his face shaved.

Yet in some respects he was unaltered.

His eyes still burned in their sockets, his lips still quivered.
"I will tell you what the people are like," he said.