It was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its scenes and ways (I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as derived their interest from the great scale on which they were acted, the strange novelty by which they were characterised); and I had a keen delight in receiving the new ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion.
No precisamente escenas de corrupción y costumbres viciosas, sino cosas cuyo interés residía en la novedad que para mí presentaban. Yo experimentaba placer escuchando las ideas que él me sugería, imaginando los cuadros que él me pintaba, y siguiéndole con la imaginación a las nuevas regiones que extendía ante mi mente.