There was more than a moderate collection of books in the room, and this circumstance led Clarence to allude to literary subjects; these Mr.Talbot took up with avidity, and touched with a light but graceful criticism upon many of the then modern and some of the older writers.

He seemed delighted to find himself understood and appreciated by Clarence, and every moment of Linden's visit served to ripen their acquaintance into intimacy.

At length they talked upon Copperas Bower and its inmates.
"You will find your host and hostess," said the gentleman, "certainly of a different order from the persons with whom it is easy to see you have associated; but, at your happy age, a year or two may be very well thrown away upon observing the manners and customs of those whom, in later life, you may often be called upon to conciliate or perhaps to control.

That man will never be a perfect gentleman who lives only with gentlemen.

To be a man of the world, we must view that world in every grade and in every perspective.