I shuddered as he spoke: I felt his influence in my marrow -- his
hold on my limbs.
"Seek one elsewhere than in me, St. John: seek one fitted to you."
"One fitted to my purpose, you mean -- fitted to my vocation. Again
I tell you it is not the insignificant private individual -- the
mere man, with the man's selfish senses -- I wish to mate: it is
the missionary."