Other sensations beset him now.
Since such a man was banned by the world, which was to be despised?
The clear result of Evan's solitary musing was to cast a sort of halo over Tailordom.

Death stood over the pale dead man, his father, and dared the world to sneer at him.

By a singular caprice of fancy, Evan had no sooner grasped this image, than it was suggested that he might as well inspect his purse, and see how much money he was master of.
Are you impatient with this young man?
He has little character for the moment.

Most youths are like Pope's women; they have no character at all.

And indeed a character that does not wait for circumstances to shape it, is of small worth in the race that must be run.