The Silent Boy, the Silent Man, the Inquisitor

"He was a most gentle, natured youth. And there was something in his presence, something in the half fran ness he put forth, which greatly drew me." "And i liked him none the less because he trimmed the gross fables of that time to such a decent shape," she writes. 'But then anon a turn of sad wisdom or a sigh set you wondering, as when that same stream runs deep into the shadows, and you hear it fret and fume with gathering strength'