To me, on the other hand, it is at once a pleasure and a relief.

What I was about to observe is this: I belong by birth to what are called, I believe, the classes, you to the masses.

I have inherited instincts which have been refined and cultivated, perhaps over-cultivated by breeding and associations--you are troubled with nothing of the sort.

Therefore if these surroundings, this discomfort, not to mention the appalling overtures of our lady friends, are distressing to you, why, consider how much more so they must be to me!" Trent smiled very faintly, but he said nothing.

He was sitting cross-legged with his back against one of the poles which supported the open hut, with his eyes fixed upon the cloud of mist hanging over a distant swamp.