To this day I remember with amusement the flood of speech with which, in my excitement, I overwhelmed him.

I painted his meanness in the darkest colours, and the universal contempt of his friends.

I made him a hero if he took his burden on his own back.

I dwelt forcibly on Leo's bitter distress and superior generosity.

I bribed him to confess all with my many-weaponed pocket-knife (the envy of the house).