It must have offered so piquant a contrast with the middle-class surroundings of her early life.

I observed that she listened with great complacency to his talk of theatrical things and people.

Lewes was fond of talking about acting and actors, and in telling stories of celebrated theatrical personages, would imitate--half involuntarily perhaps--their voice and manner.

I remember especially his doing this with reference to Macready.
Both of them loved music extremely.

It was a curious, and, to me, rather pathetic study to watch Lewes--a man naturally self-sufficient (I do not use the word in any odious sense), of a combative turn of intellect, and with scarcely any diffidence in his nature--so humbly admitting, and even insisting upon, "Polly's" superiority to himself in every department.