something great about a monster like that, there’s something to loathe. His assistant is only little - mean - despicable!” Loud and hurried in its wrath, low and deliberate in its contempt, all this was uttered with a furious and abnormal eloquence, which would have struck me, loving her, to the ground. On Rattray it had a different effect. His head lifted as she heaped abuse upon it, until he met her flashing eye with that of a man very thankful to take his deserts and something more; and to mine
unnecessary allusion, too, as a reference to the foregoing conversation will show.
“Well, no!” said he, in his frank fashion; “I can’t honestly say there is.”
We took a few puffs, he watching the fire, and I his firelit face.
“It must seem strange to you to be sitting with the only man who lived to tell the tale!”