He was not quite sure how Rickman would strike that most fastidious of young ladies.

And Rankin had said he drank.
In the light of Lucia Harden's and his sister's possible criticism, he considered him more carefully than he had done before.
The contrast between the two men was certainly rather marked.

A gentleman can be neither more nor less than a gentleman, and Rickman, in a sense not altogether intended by Maddox, was decidedly more.

His individuality was too exuberant, too irrepressible.

He had the restless, emphatic air of a man who has but little leisure and is too obviously anxious to make the most of what he has.