Applause different in kind from that hitherto bestowed; less noisy, but implying, one felt, a more delicate spirit of commendation.

With perfect self-command, with singular facial decorum, with a walk which betokened elegant athleticism and safely skirted the bounds of foppery, Mr.Chilvers discharged the duty he was conscious of owing to a multitude of kinsfolk, friends, admirers.

You would have detected something clerical in the young man's air.

It became the son of a popular clergyman, and gave promise of notable aptitude for the sacred career to which Bruno Leathwaite, as was well understood, already had designed himself.

In matters sartorial he presented a high ideal to his fellow-students; this seemly attention to externals, and the delicate glow of health discernible through the golden down of his cheeks, testified the compatibility of hard study and social observances.