He goes with us in the path we are ordained to tread, but from which the elder generation desires to warn us off.
There is very little influence where there is not great sympathy.

It was now an epoch in the intellectual life of Maltravers.

He met for the first time with a mind that controlled his own.

Perhaps the physical state of his nerves made him less able to cope with the half-bullying, but thoroughly good-humoured imperiousness of Ferrers.

Every day this stranger became more and more potential with Maltravers.