It was not to be expected that a man who was petted at Sebright's should carry himself in the Allington drawing-room as would Johnny Eames, who had never been petted by any one but his mother.

And this fraction of a hero of ours had other advantages to back him, over and beyond those which fashion had given him.

He was a tall, well-looking man, with pleasant eyes and an expressive mouth,--a man whom you would probably observe in whatever room you might meet him.

And he knew how to talk, and had in him something which justified talking.

He was no butterfly or dandy, who flew about in the world's sun, warmed into prettiness by a sunbeam.