I met a frank and affectionate reception.

It would not be easy to paint the delight which I experienced in this man's society.

I was at first oppressed with the sense of my own inferiority in age, knowledge and rank.

Hence arose numberless reserves and incapacitating diffidences; but these were speedily dissipated by the fascinations of this man's address.

His superiority was only rendered, by time, more conspicuous, but this superiority, by appearing never to be present to his own mind, ceased to be uneasy to me.