He knew nothing against Tregear.

That a Tregear should be a Conservative was perhaps natural enough--at any rate, was not disgraceful; that he should have his political creed sufficiently at heart to be able to persuade another man, was to his credit.
He was a gentleman, well educated, superior in many things to Silverbridge himself.

There were those who said that Silverbridge had redeemed himself from contempt--from that sort of contempt which might be supposed to await a young nobleman who had painted scarlet the residence of the Head of his college--by the fact of his having chosen such a friend.

The Duke was essentially a just man; and though, at the very moment in which the request was made, his heart was half crushed by his son's apostasy, he gave the permission asked.
"You know Mrs.Finn ?" Tregear said to his friend one morning at breakfast.
"I remember her all my life.

She used to be a great deal with my grandfather.