At one moment he is full of cheerful good sense, the very incarnation of jocular heartiness, a bluff, laughing, rallying, chafing, and tolerant good fellow, overflowing with the milk of human kindness, oozing with the honey of social sweetness.

At the next moment, however, the voice sinks suddenly to the key of what Father Knox, I am afraid, would call unctimoniousness, the eyelids flutter like the wings of a butterfly, the whole plump pendulous face appears to vibrate with emotion, the body becomes stiff with feeling, the lips depressed with tragedy, and the dark eyes shine with the suppressed tears of an unimaginable pathos.
In both of these moments there is no pretence.

The two manners represent two genuine aspects of his soul in its commerce with mankind.

He believes that the world likes to be clapped on the shoulder, to be rallied on its manifest inconsistencies, and to have its hand wrung with a real heartiness.

Also he believes that the heart of the world is sentimental, and that an authentic appeal in that quarter may lead to friendship--a friendship which, in its turn, may lead to business.
Business is the true end of all his heartiness.
It is in his business manner that one gets nearer to the innermost secret of his nature.