"Here is a descent from Sir Kenelm Digby and Venetia Stanley.

Sir Kenelm Digby! No finer specimen of muscular Christianity.

He fought as well as he wrote; eccentric, it is true, but always a gentleman.

Call the boy Kenelm!" "A sweet name," said Miss Sibyl: "it breathes of romance." "Sir Kenelm Chillingly! It sounds well,--imposing!" said Miss Margaret.
"And," remarked Mr.Mivers, "it has this advantage--that while it has sufficient association with honourable distinction to affect the mind of the namesake and rouse his emulation, it is not that of so stupendous a personage as to defy rivalry.

Sir Kenelm Digby was certainly an accomplished and gallant gentleman; but what with his silly superstition about sympathetic powders, etc., any man nowadays might be clever in comparison without being a prodigy.