"The moment I saw that man, I saw all these people stricken with a sudden and splendid innocence.

I saw that while all ordinary poor men in the streets were being themselves, he was not being himself.

I saw that all the men in these slums, cadgers, pickpockets, hooligans, are all, in the deepest sense, trying to be good.

And I saw that that man was trying to be evil." "But if you never saw him before--" I began.
"In God's name, look at his face," cried out Basil in a voice that startled the driver.

"Look at the eyebrows.