I knew not; but there was the phenomenon before me. Mohun was certainly a new man, and looked on life and the world around him with a gentleness and kindness of which I had believed him incapable.
“I am going to take you to see a somewhat singular character,” he said.
“Who is he?”
“It is a woman.”
“Ah!”
“And a very strange one, I promise you, my dear Surry.”
“Lead on, I’ll follow thee!”
“Good! and I declare to you, I think Shakespeare would have examined this human being with attention.”
“She is a phenomenon, then?”
“Yes.”