He had delicate hands and feet, a white forehead, deep blue, smiling eyes, short, curly, yellow, hair, and a small moustache, drooping over lips as enticing as a girl's.

But the ladies voted his manners yet more pleasing than his appearance.

They were charmed by his easy self-possession, and constant alertness as to details of courtesy.

The village beaus scornfully called him "cityfied," and secretly longed to be like him.

A shrewder criticism than that to which he was exposed would, however, have found the fault with Cordis's manners that, under a show of superior ease and affability, he was disposed to take liberties with his new acquaintances, and exploit their simplicity for his own entertainment.