But he acted according to the impulses common to a thousand of his type--and a fine type--in England.

Setting aside the mere romantic exterior of a Macedonian brigand, here was a young man of the period with astonishingly courteous manners, of--and this was of secondary consideration--of frank and winning charm, with a free-and-easy intimacy with Balzac, of fearless truthfulness regarding his deficiencies, and with a golf handicap of one.

The Colonel's hand and heart went out in instinctive coordination.

The Colonel Winwoods of this country are not gods; they are very humanly fallible; but of such is the Kingdom of England.
"At any rate," said he, "you mustn't dream of leaving us yet." He went downstairs and met his sister in the hall.
"Well ?" she asked, with just a gleam of quizzicality in her eyes, for she knew whence he had come.
"One of these days I'll take him out and teach him to shoot," said the Colonel..