I may become so, but I cannot bear it yet.
If you had gone through those Cloisterham streets as I did; if you had seen, as I did, those averted eyes, and the better sort of people silently giving me too much room to pass, that I might not touch them or come near them, you wouldn't think it quite unreasonable that I cannot go about in the daylight.' 'My poor fellow!' said the Minor Canon, in a tone so purely sympathetic that the young man caught his hand, 'I never said it was unreasonable; never thought so.

But I should like you to do it.' 'And that would give me the strongest motive to do it.

But I cannot yet.
I cannot persuade myself that the eyes of even the stream of strangers I pass in this vast city look at me without suspicion.

I feel marked and tainted, even when I go out--as I do only--at night.

But the darkness covers me then, and I take courage from it.' Mr.Crisparkle laid a hand upon his shoulder, and stood looking down at him.
'If I could have changed my name,' said Neville, 'I would have done so.
But as you wisely pointed out to me, I can't do that, for it would look like guilt.