The serene, absolute self-confidence he evidently felt was of a nature to inspire a corresponding confidence in his followers.

It was an interesting display of the power of a magnetic nature, and gave me a higher idea of the man than all his writings had given or could give.

For his intellectual powers and their printed results I never had a high opinion, but his was one of the most interesting and remarkable personalities I ever encountered.
As Russie continued to hold his own against his terrible disease, Mr.
Marshall thought that the operation of resecting the leg at the hip might save his life, and though such a maimed existence as his would then be was but a doubtful boon, the boy eagerly caught at the chance of life; and, to recruit strength for the operation, I decided to take him, by Marshall's advice, to America, and give him a summer in the woods, camping out.

I took him to the Maine woods instead of my old haunts of the Adirondacks, because the rail served to the verge of the wilderness, and we had, on Moosehead Lake, the resource of a good hotel to take refuge in if matters went ill.

They did go ill, and I found that life was too low in him to give the woodland air and the influence of the pine-trees power to help him.