"Leave me," he said, bitterly, "ye brute beasts, that have made yourselves
so, shrivelling up your souls with fiery liquors! I have done with you. Years
and years ago, I groped into your hearts, and found nothing there for my purpose.
Get ye gone!"
"Why, you uncivil scoundrel," cried the fierce doctor, "is that the way you
respond to the kindness of your best friends? Then let me tell you the truth.
You have no more found the Unpardonable Sin than yonder boy Joe has. You are
but a crazy fellow--I told you so twenty years ago--neither better nor worse
than a crazy fellow, and the fit companion of old Humphrey, here!"
