He was in Parliament.

The world spoke well of him.

He was not, so to say, by any means an old man himself.
He was good-tempered, reasonable, easily led, and yet by no means despicable.

On all subjects connected with land, he held an opinion that was very much respected, and was supposed to be a thoroughly good specimen of an upper-class Englishman.

Here was a suitor! But it was not to be supposed that such a man as Mr.Glascock would be so violently in love as to propose to a girl whose nearest known friend and female relation was misbehaving herself.
Only they who have closely watched the natural uneasiness of human hens can understand how great was Lady Milborough's anxiety on this occasion.