It was as if the grandpapa's special show of the character were but another side for the observer to study, another item for him to note.

It came back, this latter personage knew, to his own previous perception--that of the Prince's inability, in any matter in which he was concerned, to CONCLUDE.

The idiosyncrasy, for him, at each stage, had to be demonstrated--on which, however, he admirably accepted it.

This last was, after all, the point; he really worked, poor young man, for acceptance, since he worked so constantly for comprehension.

And how, when you came to that, COULD you know that a horse wouldn't shy at a brass-band, in a country road, because it didn't shy at a traction-engine?
It might have been brought up to traction-engines without having been brought up to brass-bands.