More gentlemanly, more truthful, honester, nobler, more worthy of love.

Beyond that, he was cleverer, despite a certain laziness of disposition--more brilliant and more amusing.

He had always been to a great extent the chosen one; and yet it was with a certain surprise and sense of unreality that she found what she had drifted into.

She saw the diamond ring, and looked upon it with the beautiful emotions aroused by those small stones in the female breast; but she did not seem to recognise her own finger within the golden hoop.
It was at this moment--while she dwelt in this new unreal world--that he elected to tell her of his quarrel with his father.

And when one walks through a maze of unrealities nothing seems to come amiss or to cause surprise.