Still, of course, he could not help his being a handsome fellow, having a vivid face and eyes transparent, whether blue or green, to flame of the brain exciting them; and that becomes a picture in the dream of girls--a picture creating the dream often.

And Philippa had asked her grandmother, very ingenuously indeed, with a most natural candour, why "they saw so little of Leo's hero." Simple female child! However, there was no harm done, and Lady Charlotte liked him.

She liked few.

Forthwith, in the manner of her particular head, a restless head, she fell to work at combinations.
Thus:--he is a nice young fellow, well bred, no cringing courtier, accomplished, good at classics, fairish at mathematics, a scholar in French, German, Italian, with a shrewd knowledge of the different races, and with sound English sentiment too, and the capacity for writing good English, although in those views of his the ideas are unusual, therefore un-English, profoundly so.

But his intentions are patriotic; they would not displease Lord Ormont.