so shy and wise. He may have been innocent of the ways of the world, but he was nobody's fool. Always ready to smile at himself.
\"How can I convey to you the extraordinary effect his story had on me?\" he presently went on. \"It laid a spell on my imagination. It was the first time in my life that I had ever come into contact with lawlessness, and all the starved lawlessness in my own nature leaped to meet it. Already at nineteen this lad had quaffed life to the dregs,
so shy and wise. He may have been innocent of the ways of the world, but he was nobody's fool. Always ready to smile at himself.
\"How can I convey to you the extraordinary effect his story had on me?\" he presently went on. \"It laid a spell on my imagination. It was the first time in my life that I had ever come into contact with lawlessness, and all the starved lawlessness in my own nature leaped to meet it. Already at nineteen this lad had quaffed life to the dregs,
