And thus it was that while the men and the women of the town so hated and so mocked Mr.Desires-awake, his Prince so loved and so honoured him.
3.

'Oh let not my Lord be angry; and why inquirest Thou after the name of such a dead dog as I am ?' said Desires-awake to his Prince.

'Behold, now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord which am but dust and ashes,' said Abraham.

'If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean, yet shalt thou plunge me into the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me,' said Job.

'My wounds stink and are corrupt; my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh,' said David.