His admiration of an enemy or oppressor doing great deeds, wins him entirely.

He is an active spirit, not your negative passive letter-of-Scripture Insensible.

And his faults, short of ferocity, are amusing.' 'But the fits of ferocity!' 'They are inconscient, real fits.

They come of a hot nerve.

He is manageable, sober too, when his mind is charged.