Ignorant of all distinctions between good and bad, he thought wrong from sheer inability to see right.
However his instructions might perplex him, he followed them now--and continued in after days to follow them--to the letter.

If to serve one's own interests be an art, of that art Carrio deserved to be head professor.

He arrived at the farm-house, not only punctually, but before the appointed time, and calling the honest husbandman and the labourers about him, explained to them every particular of the authority that his patron had vested in him, with a flowing and peremptory solemnity of speech which equally puzzled and impressed his simple audience.

He found Numerian and Antonina in the garden when he entered it.

The girl had been carried there daily in a litter since her recovery, and her father had followed.