I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously arrived, green and strong!
First we must wash our hands, expunging them of the many germs and parasites waiting there just underneath the cuticles, and make sure you scrub hard as these pesky little buggers are not easy to extirpate.
This species seems never to have been very numerous; and the dogs and cats of the Spaniards are said to have long ago almost entirely extirpated it, as well as some other tribes of a still smaller size.