He did not, it is true, forego or forget any of those habits of freedom and intercourse in his household and with those about him, which form so large a practice among the people of the south.

He could give a dinner, and furnish an ostentatious entertainment--lodge his guest in the style of a prince for weeks together, nor exhibit a feature likely to induce a thought of intrusion in the mind of his inmate.

In public, the populace had no complaints to urge of his penuriousness; and in all outward shows he manifested the same general characteristics which marked the habit of the class to which he belonged.
But his selfishness lay in things not so much on the surface.

It was more deep and abiding in its character; and consisted in the false estimate which he made of the things around him.

He had learned to value wealth as a substitute for mind--for morals--for all that is lofty, and all that should be leading, in the consideration of society.