Half a dozen sentences, spoken in his quick, soft, and ingratiating accents, accompanied by the most genial smile, at once converted the listener into a friend.

Few men have ever lived who more quickly responded to this human relationship.

The Ambassador, at the simple approach of a human being, became as a man transformed.

Tired though he might be, low in spirits as he not infrequently was, the press of a human hand at once changed him into an animated and radiating companion.

This responsiveness deceived all his friends in the days of his last illness.