The isolation of his position seemed to strike him all on a sudden.

That stout, full-voiced woman, with her rich clothes, had interposed between him and the rest of his kind.

She had treated him condescendingly.

He would show her some day who he was.

But her daughter! He went off into a revery.
He turned, and made his way slowly and musingly in the direction of his home.
A new force had suddenly come into his life, a new land had opened before him.