It proves him unspoilt by his uncle.

It proves him, in short, everything that I had been used to wish to believe him, and feared he was not." "I am persuaded that he does not think, as he ought, on serious subjects." "Say, rather, that he has not thought at all upon serious subjects, which I believe to be a good deal the case.

How could it be otherwise, with such an education and adviser?
Under the disadvantages, indeed, which both have had, is it not wonderful that they should be what they are?
Crawford's _feelings_, I am ready to acknowledge, have hitherto been too much his guides.

Happily, those feelings have generally been good.

You will supply the rest; and a most fortunate man he is to attach himself to such a creature--to a woman who, firm as a rock in her own principles, has a gentleness of character so well adapted to recommend them.