The man, who is referred to as Mr. Crumpton, apparently gathered a large group of noseless, syphilitic people. Surely, most of them were unused to seeing others suffering from the some disease they were. “As the number increased the surprise grew the greater among all that were present who stared at one another with such unaccustomed bashfulness and confused oddness as if every sinner beheld their own iniquities in the faces of their companions.”24
