"ah! that is what you feared! it was inevitable, you say! well, let me tell you that if i hate anyone here i hate you all," he cried, in a hoarse, strained voice "but you, you, with your jesuitical soul, your soul of sickly sweetness, idiot, beneficent millionaire i hate you worse than anything or anyone on earth! i saw through you and hated you long ago; from the day i first heard of you. i hated you with my whole heart. you have contrived all this! you have driven me into this state!