To have a thirst for knowledge, and unlimited means to gratify it, is not such a bad thing.

Why," continued the minister, glancing round on his own poorly-furnished shelves, where every book was bought almost at the sacrifice of a meal, "he will be rich enough to stock from end to end that wilderness of shelves in the half-finished Castle library.

How pleasant that must be!" Mr.Menteith smiled as if he did not quite comprehend this sort of felicity.

"But, in any case, Lord Cairnforth seems to have, what will be quite as useful to him as brains, a very kindly heart.

He does not shut himself up in a morbid way, but takes an interest in all about him.
Look at him, now, how heartily he is laughing at something your daughter has said.