He sacrificed and put to shame two gentle creatures at the beck of his implacable mania.

For the title he had forfeited tenderness, pity, decency--all the human attributes--with a brazen and unashamed face.
That man walked the earth alone.

By that act he set himself apart, defying all laws, all feeling--everything.
"As I grew calmer I reflected that he could not defy me.

I could bring him tumbling from his lofty perch with a few words.

He might brazen out his attitude to the whole world, but not to me.