Well, he is the only man on earth, I know; but sometimes I really think that his huge brain is going a little mad in its old age.

For now we flaunt ourselves before the public.
We have our breakfast on a balcony--on a balcony, if you please--overlooking Leicester Square." "And what do the people say ?" asked Syme.
"It's quite simple what they say," answered his guide.
"They say we are a lot of jolly gentlemen who pretend they are anarchists." "It seems to me a very clever idea," said Syme.
"Clever! God blast your impudence! Clever!" cried out the other in a sudden, shrill voice which was as startling and discordant as his crooked smile.

"When you've seen Sunday for a split second you'll leave off calling him clever." With this they emerged out of a narrow street, and saw the early sunlight filling Leicester Square.

It will never be known, I suppose, why this square itself should look so alien and in some ways so continental.

It will never be known whether it was the foreign look that attracted the foreigners or the foreigners who gave it the foreign look.
But on this particular morning the effect seemed singularly bright and clear.