He said he thought that, judging from my somewhat unconventional appearance, I might be one of the dangerous class of whom he had been reading in the papers, namely, a "hanarchist." I write the word as he pronounced it, for here comes the curious thing.

This man, so flawless, so well instructed in some respects, had a fault which gave everything away.

His h's were uncertain.

Three of them would come quite right, but the fourth, let us say, would be conspicuous either by its utter absence or by its unwanted appearance.

He could speak, when describing the Ragnall pictures, in rotund and flowing periods that would scarcely have disgraced the pen of Gibbon.