His Rebecca could describe him; I laugh now at some of her sayings of him; I see her mouth, so tenderly comical over her big "simpleton," she called him, and loved him so.' The gentleman appeared on the waste land above the house.

His very loose black suit and a peculiar roll of his gait likened him to a mourning boatswain who was jolly.

In Lord Levellier's workshop his remarks were to the point.

Chillon's powders for guns and blasting interested him, and he proposed to ride over from Barlings to witness a test of them.
'You are staying at Barlings ?' Chillon said.
'Yes; now Carinthia is at Esslemont,' he replied, astoundingly the simpleton.
His conversation was practical and shrewd on the walk with Chillon and Carinthia down to Esslemont evidently he was a man well armed to encounter the world; social usages might be taught him.

Chillon gained a round view of the worthy simple fellow, unlikely to turn out impracticable, for he talked such good sense upon matters of business.
Carinthia saw her brother tickled and interested.