He's anything but that.

Dan will either remain a bachelor until he's past forty, or else some day he'll marry suddenly after having known the girl at least twenty-four hours.
Dan hasn't much judgment where girls are concerned." "He appears to be able to tell a pretty girl when he sees one," argued Belle Meade, turning again to survey Dan's companion.
Belle, with the sharp eyes and keen intuition of her sex, was quite justified in believing that Midshipman Dalzell realized fully the charms of the girl with whom he was talking.
Miss Catharine Atterly was the only daughter of wealthy parents, though her father had started life as a poor boy.

Daniel Atterly, however, had been shrewd enough to know the advantages of a better education than he had been able to absorb in his boyhood.

Miss Catharine, therefore, had been trained in some of the most expensive, if not the best, schools in the country.

She was a buxom, healthy girl, full of the joy of living, yet able to conceal her enthusiasm under the polish that she had acquired in the schools she had attended.