Peter Creave, England
"He spat out the word 'leper' with a kind of brutal indifference, as though it could only refer to creatures so far removed from ordinary, clean life, that they had become a separate species, lower than the beasts. At the impact of that ugly, outcast word I flinched as though I had been struck across the face.
"I was sick, but I was more than that I was a perambulating mass of fear. Because of my fate I felt that I had lost the status of a human being."
