It was pretty to see Lord Ongar and the self-satisfaction which he enjoyed at this time.

The world was becoming young with him again, and he thought that he rather liked the respectability of his present mode of life.

He gave himself but scanty allowances of wine, and no allowance of anything stronger than wine, and did not dislike his temperance.

There was about him at all hours an air which seemed to say, "There; I told you all that I could do it as soon as there was any necessity." And in these halcyon days he could shoot for an hour without his pony, and he liked the gentle, courteous badinage which was bestowed upon his courtship, and he liked also Julia's beauty.

Her conduct to him was perfect.