Even the moral majesty and puissant purity
of Christ himself had no effect on him. In the
presence of the Sinless One he was not abashed,
nor by his searching words did he feel himself
rebuked. He gives no outward and visible sign
of the inward and spiritual grace of penitence.
Neither the aspect nor the speech of Jesus could
smite his soul into repentance. "I don't regret
for a single moment having lived as I did," sayS
this artistic convict ; "I lived for pleasure to the



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full as one should do everything that one does."
He boldly declares that he does not blame him-
self for his evil life. He says :

People thought it dreadful of me to have entertained at
dinner the evil things of life, and to have found pleasure
in their company. But then, from the point of view
through which I, as an artist in life, approached them
they were delightfully suggestive and stimulating. The
danger was half the excitement.
