He had his ideas about books too, as to manners of life, as to art, and even ethics.

Whether or no in all this there was not much that was superficial only, she was not herself deep enough to discover.

Nor would she have been deterred from admiring him had she been told that it was tinsel.

Such were the acquirements, such the charms, that she loved.

Here was a young man who dared to speak, and had always something ready to be spoken; who was not afraid of beauty, nor daunted by superiority of rank; who, if he had not money, could carry himself on equal terms among those who had.