No more my splintered heart and maddened hand were turned against the wolfish world.

This soothing savage had redeemed it.

There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.
Wild he was; a very sight of sights to see; yet I began to feel myself mysteriously drawn towards him.

And those same things that would have repelled most others, they were the very magnets that thus drew me.

I'll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy.