11/17 'He's there still; he's fond of solitude. And, Carin, my dear, don't give your hand when you are meeting or parting with people it's not done.' His uninstructed sister said: 'Did you not like him ?' She was answered with an 'Oh,' the tone of which balanced lightly on the neutral line. 'Some of the ideas he has are Lord Fleetwood's, I hear, and one can understand them in a man of enormous wealth, who doesn't know what to do with himself and is dead-sick of flattery; though it seems odd for an English nobleman to be raving about Nature. Perhaps it's because none else of them does.' 'Lord Fleetwood loves our mountains, Chillon ?' 'But a fellow who probably has to make his way in the world!--and he despises ambition!'... |