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This speech being no more comprehensible to me than his excoriation of an unknown individual, I could only stay silent and try to look appreciative. He smacked his lips. "I can see tomorrow's bannerline now: 'Agent of Destruction Views Handiwork. Should you chance to survive, your ghostwritten impressions for which we pay too high a price, far too high a price will become doubly valuable.
The breeze was keen and so cutting, that one felt as if that part of the person exposed to it had undergone the process of excoriation, and when a stronger blast than usual swept over the naked and desolate-looking fields, its influence actually benumbed the joints, and penetrated the whole system with a sensation that made one imagine the very marrow within the bones was frozen.
On the 29th of December the discharge from the ear ceased; but, owing to the neglect of the servant, it soon broke out again, and there was not only much excoriation under the ear, but, from the matting of the hair, deep ulcers formed on either side, the edges of the wound were ragged, and the skin was detached from the muscular parts beneath.
Heaven knows I bear them no ill-will." I do not know which they are, and I am glad that you did not tell me. I had heard of it before. A preacher wrote me the other day that he approved of every word of an "excoriation" that some religious editor had given me. A kindly Christian act wasn't it, to send a stranger word that you were glad that he had been abused by a religious editor?
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