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pleasant to us in our way. But as soon as he got 

 out of his own class, or what he conceived to be 

 such, he considered all people as " outsiders." He 

 did not credit them with prejudices to rub, with 

 feelings to hurt, indeed hardly with ears to over- 

 hear. Provided his subject was an " outsider," 

 he had not the slightest hesitancy in saying ex- 

 actly what he thought about any one, anywhere, 

 always in his high clear English voice, no matter 

 what the time or occasion. As a natural corol- 

 lary he always rebuffed beggars and the like 

 brutally, and was always quite sublimely doing 

 little things that thoroughly shocked our sense 

 of the other fellow's rights as a human being. In 

 all this he did not mean to be cruel or inconsid- 

 erate. It was just the way he was built ; and 

 it never entered his head that " such people " 

 had ears and brains. 



In the rest of the ship's company were a dozen 

 or so other Englishmen of the upper classes, 

 either army men on shooting trips, or youths 

 going out with some idea of settling in the coun- 

 try. They were a clean-built, pleasant lot ; good 

 people to know anywhere, but of no unusual 

 interest. It was only when one went abroad 

 into the other nations that inscribable human 

 interest could be found. 



