'My son,' says he, 'I think it cheap at the money.' He had me there." It was a singular tale for a man to tell of himself; above all, in the midst of our discussion; but it was quite in character for Nares.

I never made a good hit in our disputes, I never justly resented any act or speech of his, but what I found it long after carefully posted in his day-book and reckoned (here was the man's oddity) to my credit.

It was the same with his father, whom he had hated; he would give a sketch of the old fellow, frank and credible, and yet so honestly touched that it was charming.

I have never met a man so strangely constituted: to possess a reason of the most equal justice, to have his nerves at the same time quivering with petty spite, and to act upon the nerves and not the reason.
A kindred wonder in my eyes was the nature of his courage.

There was never a braver man: he went out to welcome danger; an emergency (came it never so sudden) strung him like a tonic.