"I doubt if he will wake," he said at last.
"I never properly understood," said Isbister, "what it was brought this on.

He told me something about overstudy.

I've often been curious." "He was a man of considerable gifts, but spasmodic, emotional.

He had grave domestic troubles, divorced his wife, in fact, and it was as a relief from that, I think, that he took up politics of the rabid sort.

He was a fanatical Radical--a Socialist--or typical Liberal, as they used to call themselves, of the advanced school.
Energetic--flighty--undisciplined.