If he failed in his purpose with this man, he would never begin his work in Egypt.

Of his life he did not think--his life was his purpose, and the one was nothing without the other.

No other man would have undertaken so Quixotic an enterprise, none would have exposed himself so recklessly to the dreadful accidents of circumstance.

There had been other ways to overcome this crisis, but he had rejected them for a course fantastic and fatal when looked at in the light of ordinary reason.

A struggle between the East and the West was here to be fought out between two wills; between an intellectual libertine steeped in Oriental guilt and cruelty and self-indulgence, and a being selfless, human, and in an agony of remorse for a life lost by his hand.
Involuntarily David's eyes ran round the room before he replied.