upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity -- an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven , but which had reeked up from the decayed trees , and the grey wall , and the silent tarn -- a pestilent and mystic vapour , dull , sluggish , faintly discernible , and leaden-hued .
It seems that two other office-boys in the building had workedworkupon his feelings by talestaleof injustice and oppression till they had wroughtworkhis compassion to the pitch of that frenzy .