He seemed to Maggie at first rather pathetic with his little twisted body and his large round head.Very soon it was emotions quite other than pity that she was feeling.She saw at once that he was a practised preacher, and she who had, with the exception of Mr.
Warlock, never heard a fine preacher, was at once under the sway of one of the ablest and most dramatic orators of his time.His voice was sweet and clear, and seemed strange enough coming from that ugly and malevolent countenance.Only the head and the grasping hands could be seen, but sometimes the invisible body was driven with such force against the desk that it seemed that it must fling the thing over, down into the congregation.