Think of that: cradled innocence and angels' dreams and the whole of the hymn just before ding-dong-bang on noses and jaws! That means confidence?
Looks like it.

But Kitty's not asleep you try him.

He's only quiet because he has got to undergo great exertion.
Last fight he was knocked out of time, because he went into it honest drunk, they tell.

And the earl took him up, to give him a chance of recovering his good name, and that's Christian.

But the earl, he knows a man as well as a horse.