Think! he couldn't have been a very great cad to marry a nobleman's daughter!" "Why, no.

Speaks well for him, that, considering his breeding.

He must be a very clever fellow to have caught the trick of the thing so soon." "And so he is, a very clever fellow; too clever by half; and a very fine-hearted fellow, too, in spite of his conceit and his temper.

But that don't prevent his being an awful fool!" "You speak like a book, Tom!" said old Mark, clapping him on the back.
"Look at me! no one can say I was ever troubled with genius: but I can show my money, pay my way, eat my dinner, kill my trout, hunt my hounds, help a lame dog over a stile" (which was Mark's phrase for doing a generous thing), "and thank God for all; and who wants more, I should like to know?
But here we are--you go up first!" They found Elsley crouched up over the empty grate, his head in his hands, and a few scraps of paper by him, on which he had been trying to scribble.

He did not look up as they came in, but gave a sort of impatient half-turn, as if angry at being disturbed.