Excerpt from The Turks in Europe: A Sketch-Study
And with all this you never set yourself above your fellows; a saint, you were yet a man of the world. Bad men as well as good men came to you for comfort and advice. You who had lived in the world, and not merely in its hot-houses, could understand the tragedies of the world. To you the only social pariah was the social climber he who despises those who are below him in Life's ladder, the sycophant, the time-server.
You could mingle with men of every kind and all men would listen to vou. An accomplished gentleman, your tastes were plain and modest; a philosopher, you remained a believer. Though you knew the world, and had been used ill by men, you believed that there was good in all men, and beauty in all things: you had an Irishman's sense of humour, but no man dared talk scandal in your hearing.
Now you are gone, and a man wise and simple, strong and gentle, is gone from a world which has need of him.
But you have left behind you an example for your sons and for others, of what a man can be.
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