Chapter 15 THE TURPITUDE OF BRASSFIELD

Man to black Misfortune beckons

When upon himself he reckons,

Marshals Faith among his assets,

Blinks his nature's many facets.

This dull gem is an ascetic,

Bloodless, pulseless, apathetic:

Shift the light-a trifling matter-

Fra Anselmo turns a satyr!

-The Kaleidoscope.

Airily, Mr. Brassfield preceded his clerk down the s