He seems moral and well inclined, and really desirous of doing good in his way; and so successful in the House, too, I hear.' 'To me,' said Argemone, 'he seems to want life, originality, depth, everything that makes a great man.

He knows nothing but what he has picked up ready-made from books.

After all, his opinions are the one redeeming point in him.' 'Ah, my dear, when it pleases Heaven to open your eyes, you will see as I do!' Poor Mrs.Lavington! Unconscious spokeswoman for the ninety-nine hundredths of the human race! What are we all doing from morning to night, but setting up our own fancies as the measure of all heaven and earth, and saying, each in his own dialect, Whig, Radical, or Tory, Papist or Protestant, 'When it pleases Heaven to open your eyes you will see as I do'?
'It is a great pity,' went on Mrs.Lavington, meditatively, 'to see a young man so benighted and thrown away.

With his vast fortune, too--such a means of good! Really we ought to have seen a little more of him.

I think Mr.O'Blareaway's conversation might be a blessing to him.