‘assassinated,’
as he
felt, by
the
missionary’s
incredulity
about a
penniless
provincial
boy’s
going to
the United
States to
become an
artist.
His name
was
besmirched
until he
had
cleared it
by
carrying
out his
purpose
and after
the
missionary’s
‘sneer’ he
had no
alternative
but to
leave the
place and
prove his
ability to
get to
America.
In English
it reads
curiously
that he
charges
the
missionary
with
‘insincerity’;
the
American’s
exclamation
