[The Newcomes by William Makepeace Thackeray]@TWC D-Link bookThe Newcomes CHAPTER VIII 28/34
Was it joy, or the bedroom candle with which he lighted his cigar, which illuminated his honest features so, and made them so to shine? "I have been occupied, sir, in taking the lad's moral measurement: and have pumped him as successfully as ever I cross-examined a rogue in my court.
I place his qualities thus:--Love of approbation sixteen. Benevolence fourteen.
Combativeness fourteen.
Adhesiveness two. Amativeness is not yet of course fully developed, but I expect will be prodeegiously strong.
The imaginative and reflective organs are very large--those, of calculation weak.
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