He was, for the order of intellect represented, attractive, and whatever he had to recommend him, you may be sure was not lost upon Carrie, in this, her first glance.
Lest this order of individual should permanently pass, let me put down some of the most striking characteristics of his most successful manner and method.

Good clothes, of course, were the first essential, the things without which he was nothing.

A strong physical nature, actuated by a keen desire for the feminine, was the next.

A mind free of any consideration of the problems or forces of the world and actuated not by greed, but an insatiable love of variable pleasure.

His method was always simple.